Crassispira fuscescens, 21-137


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Description

One turriform, marine snail shell. The shell is brown in color with white coloration throughout. The shell has approximately seven whorls. The ornamentation consists of an intricate pattern of raised vertical striations and growth lines that run perpendicular to the vertical striations. The shell is dextral with a teardrop 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
West Indies
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists