Amalda hayashii
"Amalda having an elongate, biconical and fusiform shell, with acuminate spire, exposed protoconch, subsutural band with white band on its lower margin, middle zone with no marking. Description: Shell elongate, biconic and fusiform, brownish orange in color. Periphery of the body whorl situated above the middle. Spire acute, covered by thin primary callus with very fine granules except mammillated protoconch which consists of two waxy white whorls, with a pad on the ventral side of spire originated from secondary callus developed on the colurmellar lip. Sub-suture gently curved shoulder. Middle zone glossy, brownish orange, darker than spire in color, delimited by white margin on subsutural band posteriorly and white ancillid groove anteriorly, with very fine axial and spiral lines, without marking. Ancillid band roughly lined with white axial lines on ground color. Fasciolar band in the same color with middle zone. A low labral denticle present at terminal of ancillid groove. Basal zone creamy brown, delimited from white columella by a shallow furrow. Columella with four oblique folds. Aperture wide, pinkish within. Outer lip simple, thick above and thin below. Siphonal canal deep. Operculum unknown. Measurements (mm): length width length. Holotype (Ninomiya collection) 48.6 18.5 25.0.". Recent. Amami-Oshima Island, Southern Japan.
