Mollusca : testacellidæ and zonitidæ / by W.T. Blanford and H.H. Godwin-Austen.

  • William Thomas Blanford
Date:
1908
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Credit: Mollusca : testacellidæ and zonitidæ / by W.T. Blanford and H.H. Godwin-Austen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A. Animal, spirit-specimen, views of right and left sides, shell removed. X 4. B. Edge of mantle, left shell-lobe, and left dorsal lobes. X 7. C. Generative organs. X 4. X). The penis, with a spermatophore forming in the epiphallus. X 7. E. The spermatheca, containing a perfect spermatophore. X 12. F. Jaw and teeth of the radula. X 340.] [Genus SAEIKA. Orobia resplendens, Albers, Die Heliceen, 1860, p. 58. Nanina (Macrochlamys), G. Nevill, Hand-l. i, 1878, p. 20. Sarika, Godivin-Austen, Mol. Ind. ii, 1907, p. 179. Type, S. resplendens, Phil. Range. Tenasserim to Siam. Original description :—Shell depressed, flat on base, smooth, shining; whorls very closely wound and regularly increasing. Animal with right and left mantle-lobes as in Macrochlamys. Generative organs differ, the retractor muscle of the penis is very large and given off directly at the head of that organ; no coiled caecum; amatorial organ long, with a rounded terminal knob. Spermatophore spineless.]