Plait (gastropod)
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plait-gastropod-199-11153579
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Plait (gastropod)
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A plait is an anatomical feature which is present the shells of some snails, or gastropods. This sculpture occurs often in the shells of marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda, but it is also found in some pulmonate land snails. Plaits are folds on the columella at the center of the shell. The columella is the central structure around which the whorls of a coiled gastropod shell are coiled. The presence or absence of plaits, and the number of plaits, are characteristics used in the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plait_(gastropod)
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2017-06-25T22:02:12Z
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