Description
Four turbinate freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are tan in color, covered with transverse growth lines, and are slightly reflective. The interiors are tan to gray in color and reflective. The fragile shells are very thin and brittle with three whorls, and well-defined sutures. The shells are dextral with tear-shaped apertures.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Newcomb, Wesley, 1818-1892
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Newcomb, Wesley, 1818-1892
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Rhode Island, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
