ShellsThe Dorling Kindersley Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Dorling Kindersley Handbooks make identification easy and accurate. |
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aperture aperture white bivalve broad siphonal canal brown blotches brown spiral Buccinidae callus CANCELLARIOIDEA CARIBBEAN CHITON color columella Conidae CONOIDEA convex coral reefs corneous operculum Creamy curved dark brown early whorls edge of outer Family Muricidae Fasciolariidae gastropod growth lines HABITAT Coral HABITAT Intertidal HABITAT Offshore HABITAT Sand offshore HABITAT Shallow water heavy shell hinge inflated body whorl knobs large body whorl later whorls ligament Linnaeus MEDITERRANEAN Muricidae muscle scar narrow Nassariidae nodules Occurrence 4444 Occurrence Family Olividae operculum orange ornamented outer lip pale brown periostracum PHILINOIDEA pink pointed apex Ranellidae Range Tropical Indo-Pacific REMARK right valve shallow suture SHAPE short spire shoulder siphonal canal slightly spines spiral bands spiral grooves spiral ribs spiral rows spire whorls straight streaks Strombidae STROMBOIDEA Superfamily MURICOIDEA Family Superfamily TONNOIDEA Family suture teeth thin top of aperture Tropical Indo-Pacific Superfamily tubercles TUSK SHELLS umbilicus umbo umbones upper varices varix vertical ribs Volutidae whitish yellowish