mollusc shell
21Sculpture (mollusc) — Sculpture on a mollusc shell is whatever natural 3 dimensional ornamentation exists on the outer surface of a shell, apart from the basic shape of the shell itself. The term sculpture is most often applied to the shells of gastropods and bivalves …
22Spire (mollusc) — A spire is a descriptive term for part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc shell or gastropod shell. The spire consists of all of the whorls of a coiled gastropod shell except for the body whorl.ome different types of spireTurbinoform or …
23ark-shell — arkˈ shell noun A box like bivalve mollusc shell (genus Arca) • • • Main Entry: ↑ark …
24Grooved carpet shell — Taxobox name = Ruditapes decussatus regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Bivalvia ordo = Veneroida familia = Veneridae genus = Ruditapes species = R. decussatus binomial = Ruditapes decussatus binomial authority = L., 1758The grooved… …
25Bellerophon (mollusc) — Taxobox name = Bellerophon fossil range= fossil range|Silurian|Early Triassic regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Gastropoda ordo = Bellerophontida familia = Bellerophontidae genus = Bellerophon genus authority = Montfort, 1808… …
26wing shell — noun 1. obsolete : elytron 2. a. : any of various marine bivalves of the family Pteriidae and especially the genus Pteria in which the hinge border projects like a wing b. : a shell of the genus Strombus …
27Common slipper shell — A live but washed up stack of Crepidula fornicata with a small chiton on the left; the lowest individual (on the right of this stack) would have been fixed to a hard surface. Scientific classification …
28tusk shell — noun any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing • Syn: ↑tooth shell • Hypernyms: ↑scaphopod * * * noun : tooth shell * * * tusk shell noun Th …
29Tusk shell — The tusk shells or scaphopods are a class of marine mollusks which vary in size from very small to medium sized. The scientific name of this class is Scaphopoda, meaning shovel footed . These mollusks live on soft substrates offshore (usually not …
30Scotch bonnet (shell) — Taxobox name = PAGENAME image width = 100px regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Gastropoda ordo = Littorinimorpha familia = Tonnidae subfamilia = Cassinae genus = Semicassis species = S. granulata subspecies = S. granulata granulata… …
