The shell of species within this family varies from planispiral to needle-shaped.
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The shape of the shell is planispiral.
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This is an easily recognizable species : the shell is flat-coiled ( planispiral ).
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Many cephalopods and tubeworms can also have a planispiral shell ( Allaby and Allaby, 1999 ).
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The test is free, starting with a brief planispiral coil followed by a straight uncoiled stage.
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The shells are conical and curved in a planispiral way, and they are usually whitish in color.
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In a few gastropod families the shells are not helical in their coiling, but instead are planispiral, flat-coiled.
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Those in the Globorotaliacea are typically trochospiral and smooth while those in the Globigerinacea are trochospiral to planispiral in arrangement and spinose.
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A spiral shell can be visualized as consisting of a long helical or planispiral shape, for reasons of both strength and compactness.
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Asterigerinacea are characterized by a trochospiral or nearly planispiral arrangement of the chambers, which are fully or partially subdivided by internal partitions.