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Creative Commons Licence
Description: 

Scanning electron micrograph of Achatinella sowerbyana radular tooth

Close up image of radular tooth showing four major cusps and numerous minor cusps. The radula is composed of hundreds of rows of these teeth. The entire radula is smaller than 1.0 mm.

. Photographer: Yeung, Norine. Publisher: Yeung, Norine.

Creator: 
Yeung, Norine
Taxonomic name: 
Achatinella sowerbyana Pfeiffer, 1855 (Taxon Pages)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith