Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Abdomen with the sides of the upper surface carinated. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Domestic finds include various scrapers, borers, beads, and pottery consisting mainly of undecorated carinated bowls. From Wordnik.com. [Ballynashllog Jackpot] Reference
Baker2 had noted that in several counties of Illinois a form of Anguispira alternata occurs which has a carinated periphery and a low spire. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
In the southern part of Illinois there is a tendency for the shell of alternata to become carinated on the periphery, even when the spire is high. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
One of the abundant species in Monocacy Natural Resources Area where I did a land snail survey was what Pilsbry1 called Anguispira alternata angulata, a keeled or carinated morph of Anguispira alternata. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Abdomen black and shining; the first segment with some coarse striae at the apex; the second with a central forked carina and an oblique one on each side running inwards to the apex of the segment; between the carinæ are a number of deep grooves; the lateral margins of the three basal segments carinated; the third segment has a row of short deep striæ at its base; the ovipositor longer than the body. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
One near complete carinated bowl included burnt internal residue. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
Each burnt layer included charcoal, burnt sandstone and limestone fragments and very occasional fragments of carinated bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
(Fig. 185.) Shell deeply concave on both sides; whirls, three; carinated on both sides; lip on the left extending beyond the plane of the preceding whirl. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Page view page image: and are from 13 to 17 in number. they are also veined, glossey, carinated and wrinkled; their points obliquely pointing towards the extremity of the common footstalk. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
Shell 'elongate, fusiform, spire a little longer than the mouth; whorls twelve, the first one or one and a half nuclear, the others convex in the middle and strongly carinated; suture bordered by a thickened rib. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Antennae longer and more porrect; second submarginal cell as long as the third; abdomen broader at the base, its ventral surface concave; hypopygium scarcely carinated laterally, and pygidium prominent and deeply emarginate, its lateral edges produced into acute teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
(Fig. 142.) Shell conical and turned to the left; the surface is marked by revolving lines; towards the face of the pillar lip the lines are strong; whirls of the spire rather concave; edges sub-carinated; labrum sharp, edge convex, and forming a sinus near the suture. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
A number of highly structured deposits involving redeposited marl, crushed cremated bone, burnt flint and fragments of carinated bowl had been deposited beneath Mound C and Mound D, apparently concentrated on the artificially extended natural depressions beneath the centre of each. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
3 inches & a 1/4 in length. each point of their crenate margins armed with a subulate thorn or spine and are from 13 to 17 in number. they are also veined, glossy, carinated and wrinkled; their points obliquely pointing towards the extremity of the common footstalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
The outmoft carinated. From Wordnik.com. [British Zoology] Reference
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