stoma tell a

[Mod. Lat., dim in. from Gr. stoma a mouth, an aperture.] Zool. & Palæont.: A genus of Turbinide, with thirty-three recent species, found on reefs and under stones at low water in tropical and subtropical regions. Shell ear-shaped, regular, spire small, aperture oblong, very large and oblique; interior pearly, lip thin and even, operculum circular, horny, and multispiral. They commence in the Secondary. ( Nicholson .) sto-mā-ti-a (ti as shi), s. [Mod. Lat., from stoma (q. v.).] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Haliotide, akin to Haliotis, but with a prominent spire, and a furrow instead of perforations on the shell. Recent species twelve, found under stones at low water, from Java, the Philippines, Torres Straits, and the Pacific: fo il eighteen, from the Lower Silurian to the Chalk of North America and Europe.