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"Emilio J. Power" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:42:29 -0400
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Yup. I found that out when I got my first Pleuro
and the Pleuro book. Kind of interesting how they
retrofill the slit.

Andrew Grebneff wrote:

>
> I suspect Emilio knows... but for those who don't.....cut....
> Living taxa: Pleurotomariidae,
> most Scissurellidae, slit Fissurellidae, some "turrids". The
> selenizone is the track left by the slit as the shell grows by labral
> accretion, and is often bounded by raised cords or lirae.
>

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