Family Caecidae Caecum antillarum Carpenter, 1858 Antillean caecum - 3.5 mm Shell small, tubular, sometimes increasing in diameter toward aperture. Shell smooth, lacking longitudinal microsculpture. Aperture sometimes curved dorsally. Apical plug (septum) hemispheric, mucro blunt when present. This is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image.
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