title: Awateria watsoni
text: # Awateria watsoni
  
  Awateria watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm, its breadth 3.3 mm.
  
  (Original description) This small, white shell has a short fusiform shape. It has a large smooth apex. The upper slope of the six whorls is comparatively smooth, exhibiting only a few (about 4) faint spiral lirae, and the lower portion and the greater part of the body whorl are covered with a distinct cancellation, the points of intersection of the oblique and transverse lirae being rather acutely nodulose. The sinus is moderately deep. The arcuate lip is prominent.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species is endemic to Australia.
  
  