Metanachis jaspidea, 21-147


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Description

Four turbinate, marine snail shells. The shells are white in color. Each shell has approximately four whorls. The ornamentation is faded, but the shells have vertical striations and growth bands on each whorl. The shells are dextral with teardrop-shaped apertures.


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