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1: foot. 2: anterior cephalic lobe. 3:posterior cephalic lobes held erect. 4: pallial exhalant siphon; taper fits adapical angle of aperture. 5: glans of penis? 6: rectum and anus OR female...
01 October 2024 6,392 7 View
Please can you name the red marks labelled 1 and tell me their function? The specimen has the roof of the nuchal cavity removed. The visceral hump still has the mantle but some viscera have burst...
21 July 2024 1,502 4 View
Can anyone identify orange feature 12 on this female Ocenbera erinaceus? The image showing feature 12 is of the animal removed from the shell with the mantle left intact over the features. In the...
04 March 2023 9,777 1 View
Am I right in thinking that the grey feature labelled 5 in the attached image of Tonicella rubra is probably a pallial afferent blood vessel/ sinus/ vein taking blood to the ctenidia? If so, which...
28 December 2014 435 3 View
Could I ask for confirmation or correction of my attempted interpretation of the labelled features in the attached image. I would be especially grateful if anyone can give me access to an...
31 October 2014 6,230 7 View
Follow up to my request about females; are these features correctly labelled? Nucella lapillus (Neogastropoda) Male: 1: mantle skirt, 2: siphon, 3: osphradium 4: ctenidium, 5: hypobranchial...
26 July 2014 3,957 13 View
I would appreciate it greatly if someone with experience of dissecting Nucella lapillus (Neogastropoda) would confirm / correct my labelling of its anatomical features in the attached...
26 July 2014 9,203 11 View