Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes. This is a tropical genus which occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. There are both living and fossil species in this genus, which first appeared in the Paleocene. . The fusiform, patterned shell is small to large. The pr...
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(from the article `gastropod`) ...in one plane, as in Planorbis; become globose with the whorls increasing rapidly in size, as in Pomacea; have the whorls become elongate and ...
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