Description
One turbinate, marine snail shell. The shell is tan in color, with brown colored bands, and with an ivory color inside. The shell is covered with ribs. The shell has seven whorls and deep, well-defined sutures. The shell has an oval shaped aperture, and thick lips that are reflected onto the base of the shell. The shell is dextral and has a pointed apex.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- 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
- Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists