La coquille flammée du casque rouge, Cypraecassis rufa

Jean-Pierre Gauthier (1), Jacques Fereire (1) & Thanh Nhan Bui (2) Abstract The flame structure of the red helmet shell, Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) Among molluscs with so-called “porcelaneous” shells, consisting of non-nacreous aragonite, we chose a gastropod, Cypraecassis rufa, to show an example of flame structure on cabochon-cut samples. The crossed structure of this […]