An UPPER SLOPE species described from offf the Andaman Islands (type locality) but also recognised from the Philippines (Western Indo-Pacific realm. Andaman province. Central Indo-Pacific realm. Western Coral Triangle province).
Western Indo-Pacific realm. Andaman province. Central Indo-Pacific realm. Western Coral Triangle province.
Off Andaman Islands (type locality). 185 fathoms (UPPER SLOPE). Philippines (UPPER SLOPE)
Ancilla glans Smith, 1899: 246. "Testa gracilis, acuminato-ovata, grisea, supra callo rufo-fuscescente induta, circa basin rufescens; spira acuminata, ad apicem submamillata; anfractus 8, planiusculi, sutura callo plerumque obscurata sejuncti, viltimus elongatus, convexiusculus, longitudinaliter tenuiter striatus; apertura angusta, longit. totius 4/7 adaequans labrum tenue, antice ad basin leviter incrassatum, supra prope suturam baud profunde sinuatum; columella inferne alba, reflexa, crassa, oblique sulcata. Longit. 34 millim., diam. 12; apertura 20 longa, 5 lata.". Recent. Off Andaman Islands. Illustrated in Annandale & Stewart, 1901: Pl. 11 figs. 6-6a.
Type material probably in Indian Museum, Kolkata, India.
