dextrally

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The shells coil dextrally (right-handed, or in a clockwise direction) and have a long siphonal canal.

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  1. By or toward the right side, as opposed to the left; dextrad. It is a curious fact that the spathes are rolled up indifferently either way—either dextrally or sinistrally—in about equal numbers. Jour. of Bot., Brit, and Foreign, 1883, p. 237.

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