Gastropod Shell - Variety of Forms

Variety of Forms

  • Turritella communis, many-whorled shell of tower snail

  • X-ray image of Turritella

  • Shell of marine cowry snail - Cypraea nebrites

  • X-ray image of Cypraea

  • X-ray image of the shell of Tonna galea

  • Charonia

  • Murex pecten

  • Thin section in plane-polarized light of microscopic gastropod shell, from Holocene lagoonal sediment of Rice Bay, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Scale bar 500 microns.

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