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Record 1 2016-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Pleurotomaria
Latin
DEF

A large genus of nearly extinct two-gilled gastropods (suborder Rhipidoglossa) usually having a trochiform nacreous shell with a broad sinus in the outer margin of the last whorl that extends back around the whorls as a raised band.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Pleurotomaria
Latin
DEF

Mollusque gastropode, prosobranche, remarquable par ses caractères archaïques. (Type de la famille des pleurotomariidés.)

CONT

La coquille du pleurotomaire est entaillée au dernier tour, mais cette encoche n'existe pas chez les jeunes; les pleurotomaires ont été particulièrement répandus au jurassique: ils ne sont aujourd'hui représentés que par quelques espèces habitant les mers du Japon, des Antilles et l'Atlantique sud.

Spanish

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