T=testa=shell
Ult.=ultimate whorl
d=denticle (one parietal and one palatal?)
anfr: anfractibus
of which description is it and can you send me if you have the whole paper?

Ümit
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Subject: Latin abbreviations


> 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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