The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar...

mollusc whorls, the body whorl in a mollusc shell is the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture. A spindle whorl is a...

hair whorl is a patch of hair growing in a circular direction around a visible center point. Hair whorls occur in most hairy animals, on the body as well...

resulting in whorl numbers being a quarter higher. Apical whorls—the whorls near the apex or tip of the shell of gastropods Body whorl—The most recently...

of spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls", which in life were embedded in the lower jaw. As with most extinct cartilaginous...

shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°. A spire is part of...

worship 'Gauri Valampuri'. This Valampuri shows small dark spots on its body whorl, near the conch cavity. These dots are of conch skin i.e. of periostracum...

reminiscent of that of a small strawberry, hence the common name. The body whorl bears 20 or 21 cinguli, of which the 4th and 9th, as well as one or two...

margin of the aperture Apex: the smallest few whorls of the shell Body whorl (or last whorl): the largest whorl in which the main part of the visceral mass...

others may be smoother, especially on the body whorl. Immature specimens are fusiform with large, wide body whorls and resemble immature specimens of Cerithium...

is usually golden brown with a very long siphonal canal and a rounded body whorl with a low spire. There is a row of spines that corresponds to the end...

oval. This shape usually corresponds roughly to the cross-section of the body whorl of the shell. The aperture of a snail shell can have many other forms:...

The umbilical apex is sunken or enclosed and no longer visible. Large body whorl with fine spiral striations. Smooth columella. The thin outer lip of the...

tubercles. The 6-7 whorls are obliquely lamellose striate. The upper ones are carinate and tuberculate or spinose at the periphery. The body whorl descends rounded...

wave action of the shore on which a particular population lives but the body whorl (the largest section of the shell where the majority of the visceral mass...

ascend the spire obliquely at a rate of about a dozen per whorl, disappearing on the body whorl. Eight spiral cords are present, with the four lower ones...

shouldered body whorl. It contains five whorls. They are sculptured with punctate spiral lines. The protoconch is small and eroded. The other whorls show two...

infrasutural excavation, especially on the body whorl and become less distinct on the base of the body whorl, where they disappear at last on the siphonal...

but solid, with a sharp apex and relatively higher spire and distant body whorl. This species has a small and round umbilicus and the spire is produced...

the body whorl. They are a little curved and above a little thickened. They are surrounded by sharply defined spirals (about 22 on the body whorl), The...

from the body. In some nudibranchs, the mantle cavity and the original gill have disappeared altogether. Instead, the upper surface of the body has numerous...

light yellowish-brown to golden to grey. It has a characteristic inflated body whorl, a flared, thick outer lip, and a shallow stromboid notch. The shell is...

coloring and embraces a large synonymy. The moderate spire is striate. The body whorl is long and rather cylindrical, closely striate below. The color of the...

The 10-17 (27) x 6-8 mm shell has 3-4 whorls. These are relatively flat and with shallow sutures. The body whorl is massive and the aperture is much greater...

a portion of the shell which is near the suture and the keel on the body whorl is chipped out using a stone, (see image), and then is ground down with...

purple lilac coloration on the upper whorls, below the yellow protoconch. On the penultimate whorl and the body whorl, a light white band occupies the middle...

subconcave, joining the body whorl at a very open angle. The spiral sulcations are equidistant, 9 in the penultimate, 17 in the body whorl. The axial accremental...

attached to a wooden handle and used as a hammer or woodworking tool. The body whorl was used as a drinking cup. The columella was also used to make plummets...

The left extremity and the head are missing. The outer surface of the body whorl near the figure has an angular shoulder. This shell spoon is not bilaterally...

of species has a small, flat spire and two to three whorls. The last whorl, known as the body whorl, is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear...