Seashells: the plainness and beauty of their mathematical description

Examples: Gastropods: adding nodules

Horse Conch (trapezium horse conch, spindle shape, [2, p. 147])

[alpha=84, beta=-19, phi=45, mu=, Omega=-2, A=50, a=40, b=14, L=8, W[1]=6, W[2]=27, P=0, N=8]

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These heavy shells include some of the world's largest gastropods. They are high-spired, with a long siphonal canal. The animals are carnivorous and mainly eat other mollusks. The trapezium horse conch has spiral rows of large tubercles at periphery of spire whorls and shoulder of body whorl. It has also strong growth ridges.
Habitat: shallow waters near coral, tropical Indo-Pacific region.

[2] S. Peter Dance, Shells, Dorling Kindersley, 2002.

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