Description
Nine turbinate, marine snail shells that are white to tan in color. Each shell has six to eight whorls. Distinct ornamentation is found on each of these shells. The ornamentation consists of deep sutures, which separate the whorls. The whorls only touch where the white axial costae cross the suture to the next whorl. The costae numbers vary along each whorl. The shells are dextral, with an ""oval"" shaped aperture.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1857-01
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Oaks Island, Waccamaw River, Georgetown County, South Carolina, United States
- Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
