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Interestingly, almost all winter flounder wind up dextral.

Given that handedness is apparent early in life and the vast majority of people are right-handed, we are almost certainly dextral by nature.

Maslin stated that the anal tube is median in the specimens that he examined; we have not studied Maslin's specimens, but all tadpoles of Smilisca that we have examined have a dextral anal tube.

Shell thin, dextral, with prominent spire and oval aperture; no inferior pallial lobe.

Shell helicoidally coiled, dextral or sinistral, the last whorl generally uncoiled.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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