Lira (mollusc)

Lirae (singular lira) are a sculptural feature of the outside of the shells of various molluscs. An organism bearing lirae is "lirate". The feature was described by Leslie Reginald Cox in 1960 as a "fine linear elevation on shell surface or within outer lip" of gastropod shells.[1] The term is also commonly applied to the shells of bivalves, nautiloids and brachiopods.

References

  1. ↑ Cox, L. R. (1960). Part I, Mollusca 1, ch. 2, p. 184-169. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.


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