Samuel Pickworth Woodward

Biographical details

Portrait of Samuel Pickworth Woodward Samuel Pickworth Woodward,  ../../ (1862)

“ Mantell in his original description of the species, and serves to distinguish it from another form, nearly equally common in the chalk, which is figured and described by Goldfuss as C. granulosus, but is generally regarded as a (perhaps sexual?) variety, having a more tumid shell, and with the additional rows of tubercles on the upper surface rudimentary or obsolete.
The pairs of ambulacral pores in Cyphosoma Kœnigi, form ten winding lines from the mouth-opening (peristome) to the apical orifice (periproct) .
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