Variety of Forms
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Turritella communis, many-whorled shell of tower snail
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X-ray image of Turritella
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Shell of marine cowry snail - Cypraea nebrites
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X-ray image of Cypraea
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X-ray image of the shell of Tonna galea
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Charonia
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Murex pecten
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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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