Helicina orbiculata, 21-027


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Description

Two trochoid, terrestrial snail shells. The intact shell is white to off-white with five whorls. There is little ornamentation and all whorls are all relatively smooth. The shell is dextral with a "D" shaped aperture. The second shell is in numerous fragments and extremely fragile.


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.
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists