Assertion: whelk's shell | /r/CapableOf | reflect more light
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text: Etter (1988b) reported that white shells reflected more light, and hence absorbed less heat, perhaps a mechanism for avoiding desiccation.
text: Etter (1988b) noted that white shells reflected more light (reducing the rate of heating and the temperature reached within unit time) and that dog whelks were cooled by evaporation of the water retained within the shell during emersion.