Cancris communis Cushman and Todd 1942

Cancris communis Cushman and Todd, 1942

Figure 8.9-10

1942 Cancris sagra (d’Orbigny) var. communis Cushman and Todd, p. 79, pl. 19, figs. 8-11; pl. 20, fig. 1.

2014 Cancris communis Cushman and Todd; Panchang and Nigam, pl. 28, fig. 30a-c.

Description. Test broad, outline auriculate, cross section lenticular, wall calcareous, perforate, umbilical side above the aperture imperforate, surface smooth; chambers flat on spiral side, inflated on the umbilical side, rapidly increasing in size, arranged trochospirally, spiral side evolute, umbilical side involute; periphery acute and carinate, sutures well arched, slightly depressed and limbate in the final chambers on the spiral side, radial and depressed on the umbilical side; aperture an interiomarginal, umbilical, broad opening.