Io fluvialis, 21-526


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Description

Three turbinate, freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are tan to brown and dull in appearance. Internally, the shells are cream and slightly iridescent. The shells have five whorls, shallow sutures, and spines near the sutures on the body and middle whorls. The periostracum has flaked off the spines and apices of the shells. The shells are dextral with oval-shaped apertures.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Contributor
  • Brumby, Richard Trapier, 1804-1875
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
People
  • Brumby, Richard Trapier, 1804-1875
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Nolichucky River, Tennessee, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists