Turritella leucostoma, 21-093


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Description

One turriform, marine snail shell. Coloration is white with irregular vertical lines in varying colors from pink to tan. The shell has approximately seventeen fairly flat whorls that are separated by sutures which become increasingly shallow toward the apex. There are growth lines on each whorl and vertical striations that crisscross the growth lines. The shell is dextral, with a circular aperture and sharp outer lip. (A small hole is present in the fifth whorl from the 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
Gulf of California
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists