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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.

In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.

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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