top-shell

(Animals) any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell

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A new species of top-shells (Trochidae) was discovered around the Leiyu Township in Taiwan's Kinmen County - Kinmen Top-shell, the first to be named after the outlying islands.

The Kinmen Top-shell sports a pyramid shell comprised of circles of colorful beads featuring hues from gold and pink to purple.

New top-shell species discovered on Taiwan's Kinmen islands

The forearm is slim and decorated with 22 line-per-inch checkering you would see on a top-shell field gun, which the Maxus is.

Family ties: Browning's Maxus Hunter has impeccable bloodlines

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