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Lirae are the plural form of the currency 'lira'
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lirae
The lirae number about eight to sixteen.
The intervals between the lirae are smooth.
Spiral lirae are present on all whorls.
The surface is ornamented with fine lirae.
The lirae usually contain intermediate lirulae.
It shows longitudinal ribs crossed by many lirae.
The spiral lirae are punctate with black.
The base contains numerous concentric lirae.
The lirae are generally subobsolete on the last whorl.
The thick outer lip has no inner lirae.
These lirae are dotted with red.
The thin outer lip has no inner lirae.
The lirae are unequal.
They are spirally encircled by regularly granose subequal lirae.
The lirae become gradually more prominent towards the centre.
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The body whorl has ten such lirae.
Three spiral lirae form nodules when crossing the ribs.
They are encircled by numerous fine lirae.
They are covered with encircling lirae with the interstices elegantly clathrate.
The base is encircled by numerous fairly strong spiral lirae.
The lirae of the base of the shell are nearly smooth and dotted.
The base contains numerous regular concentric squamose lirae.
The lirae are separated by deep interstices which sometimes intersect the colored stripes.
The periphery shows frequently two or several more prominent lirae.
The lirae number about 9 on the penultimate whorl.
The surface of the whorls is encircled by unequal sized granose lirae.
In between these lirae the shell's surface is granulated.
The others are obtusely angulate and crossed by many spiral lirae.
It is painted on the lirae with lilac-brown tessellations, somewhat formed into flammules.
The anterior fasciole is closely threaded with about a dozen rounded lirae.
Above this there are 4 or 5 lirae on each whorl.
The base of the shell contains about ten concentric squamose lirae.
The lirae are coarsely granulose, about 5 in number.
The whole surface is more or less finely spirally lirate with subgranulose lirae.
The spiral lirae of the penultimate whorl vary in number from 3 to 5.
The small spire is transversely lirate with the larger and smaller lirae alternating.
The spiral lirae number 9 or 10 on the penultimate whorl, every alternate one slightly larger.
The ribs form a slight posterior shoulder or angle, interstices with revolving lirae.
Only a few of the lirae have sparse, black beads, each between two white ones.
The protoconch consists of two convex whorls, each with ten valid spiral lirae.
Lirae ( = ridges or plications ) on the inner lip are lacking.
The space between the basal and the umbilical keel contains 5 smooth lirae.
They are encircled by 3 or 4 lirae or carinae on the body whorl about 12, slenderer below.
The spire is adorned with oblique striae . and two keels with narrow lirae between them.
The base of the shell contains 6 or 7 concentric lirae.
It is silvery white on the inside, and has 7 lirae.
The other ones are subequal, with, in many cases, intermediate lirae.
There is sometimes a delicate riblet between the 3d and 4th lirae.
The base of the shell is convex, bearing 4 or 5 strong concentric lirae.
On the antepenultimate whorl there are 5, and on earlier whorls 3 granose lirae.
