Terebra concava, 21-038


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Description

One turriform, marine snail shell. The shell is white in color with ten whorls. Ornamentation consists of raised lines between each whorl, with small nodules sticking up on each line. It is a symmetrically repeating pattern. There is a small hole near the apex of the shell. The shell is dextral with an "oval" shaped aperture.


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
Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists