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His most coveted shell was a golden cowrie, says his daughter, and one of his last publications was for Hawaiian Shell News, about how to use a scanning electric microscope to photograph cowrie radulae, or teeth.
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As I was about to give up, Tim Pearce came to the rescue and pointed out that the teeth on the radulae of H. minuscula and L. inermis have different shapes, the most significant being the shapes of the marginal teeth, blade-like in minuscula but serrated in inermis see the drawings below.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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As I was about to give up, Tim Pearce came to the rescue and pointed out that the teeth on the radulae of H. minuscula and L. inermis have different shapes, the most significant being the shapes of the marginal teeth, blade-like in minuscula but serrated in inermis see the drawings below.
How I determined this was Hawaiia minuscula AYDIN 2007
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[1], the shells and radulae of molluscs, and of the exoskeletons of arthropods, especially crustaceans and insects
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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