Helix discolor, 21-155


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Description

One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is tan in color with three whorls and growth lines around each whorl. The shell is dextral with an oval-shaped aperture. The outer lip of the aperture is thicker and reflected back on the body whorl.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Museum National de Historie Naturelle
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Martinique
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists