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The microsculpture of the shell of Rectaktbmon (Rectíartemon) depressus (Heynemann) (Gastropoda, Stylomatophora, Streptaxidae)

The microsculpture of Rectartemon depressus (Heynemann, 1868) shell is described on scanning electron microscope. The generics characteristics are proposed: shell's dorsal sculture formed for ribs striae radial; nuclear whorls smooth; ventral surface of the shell smooth or slightly striate; and as specifics characteristics: the number of ribs striae radial on the last world. The R. (R.) depressus presented seven or eight ribs striae radial for millimeter.

Stylommatophora; Streptaxidae; Rectartemon (Rectartemon) depressus; photomicrography; shell


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