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Solariella Triplostephanus
''Solariella triplostephanus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Solariella triplostephanus'' Dall, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575370 on 2012-12-03 Description The height of the shell attains 5.25 mm, its diameter 7 mm. The shell has a trochiform shape with six tabulate whorls. The nucleus is very minute, glassy, slightly tilted. The subsequent whorls are flat above, with closely appressed suture. Three strong spirals girdle the whorls. The one at the shoulder is strongly beaded; one at the middle of the whorl is minutely undulate, and the third at the suture is simple, and obscured on all the whorls but the last by the suture being laid against it. On the body whorl 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks. Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution. Biography Early life Dall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Charles Henry Appleton Dall, (1816–86), a Unitarian minister, moved in 1855 to India as a missionary. His family however stayed in Massachusetts, where Dall's mother Caroline Wells Healey was a teacher, transcendentalist, reformer, and pioneer feminist. In 1862, Dall's father, on one of his few brief visits home, brought his son in contact with some natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
