Architectonica perspectiva, 21-114


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Description

Four lenticular, marine snail shells. The shells are tan in color with thin brown and white color bands. Brown radiating dashes and growth lines cover the shell, with the same dash pattern on the base and inside of the umbilicus. The shells have approximatley five whorls that reach a flattened apex. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures. The umbilici is completely open and there appears to be denticles that wind up the umbilici.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
  • Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, China Seas
  • East Indies
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists