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Teleochilus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

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Teleochilus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

==Description== (Original description) The protoconch is large, with 1½ depressed whorls, spirally and longitudinally striated from the initial portion onwards, the spiral striae developing into well-defined sulcations as the shell passes from the brephic to the neanic stages of growth.

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