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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of ptenoglossate pectinibranchiate gastropods typified by the genus Aclis, with a much-curved minute odontophore, densely hirsute, with simple uncinate teeth and a rimate turreted shell. Two genera, Aclis and Hemiaclis, are represented by four species in Norway.

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