anfr. = Anfractus = Whorls
T. = Testa = Shell
Ult = ultima = last (?)
ap. = apice = protoconch (?)
ang. = angle (????)

regards
Wiggers

--- aydin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I would appreciate it very much if someone told me what all
> the
> abbreviations in the following text (from a 1897 paper by
> Westerlund) stood
> for. I suspect "anfr." is for "whorls", "perist." is
> "peristome" & "ap."
> is "aperture", but what are "T." & "d." & the rest?
>
> "T. oblongo-conica, leviss. striatula, corneo-fusca; anfr. 7,
> regulares,
> ult. basi turgidus; ap. 2-dentata: d. l par. compresso sat
> valido et d. l
> marg. tuberclif., tuberculo ang. nullo, perist.
> alboincrassato, vix
> expansiusculo."
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Aydin
>
>
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