Chaetopleura apiculata, 21-049


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Description

One marine chiton. Consists of eight overlapping shell plates in a light tan color that are surrounded by a dark brown girdle. Bilaterally symmetrical.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1856-03-26
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