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Euplica turturina, common name : the turtle dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. [1]
4 – columella 5 – suture 6 – body whorl 7 – apex Four views of a shell of Arianta arbustorum: Apertural view (top left), lateral view (top right), apical view (bottom left), and umbilical view (bottom right). The gastropod shell is part of the body of many gastropods, including snails, a kind of mollusc.
The length of the shell attains 2.4 mm. (Original description) Shell: Small, obovate, with a scarcely noticeable spire, strong and porcellanous white, lustrous, with an exceedingly narrow aperture. The outer lip is truncate but not emarginate, varixed, and toothless, while the columella has four small folds ending in a sharp point.
This list of gastropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of snails and slugs of every kind that have been described (following the rules of the ICZN) during the year 2018. The list only includes taxa at the rank of genus or species .
Shell of marine snail Lunella torquata with the calcareous operculum in place Gastropod shell of the freshwater snail Viviparus contectus with corneous operculum in place. An operculum (Latin for 'cover, covering'; pl. opercula or operculums) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor that exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also ...
A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°. A spire is part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc, a gastropod shell, and also the whorls of the shell in ammonites, which are fossil shelled cephalopods.
The term "false limpets" is used for some (but not all) of these other groups that have a conical shell. Thus, the name limpet is used to describe various extremely diverse groups of gastropods that have independently evolved a shell of the same basic shape (see convergent evolution). And although the name "limpet" is given on the basis of a ...
Shell of Theta chariessa: ... Theta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae. [1] ... ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp