Tympanotonos fuscatus, 21-240


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Description

One turriform, marine snail shell. The shell is brown with a lighter brown color band just beneath the suture. There are twelve whorls with shallow sutures. The shell is adorned with large protruding nodules on each whorl and clear growth lines giving a wave-like appearance on the surface. The shell is dextral with an oval shaped aperture and a thin lip.


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
Senegal, Africa
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists