Planorbarius corneus, 21-548


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Description

Two involute freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are brown, slightly reflective, and covered with transverse growth lines. Internally, the shells are cream. The shells have three to four coiled whorls, deep sutures and the basal side is deeply depressed. The sinistral shells have semicircle shaped apertures.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


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
Europe
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists