Cernuella virgata, 21-177


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Description

Four lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are off-white with darker brown color bands spiraling from the apices. The shells have growth lines, striations, and five whorls which surround semi-open umbilici. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures which cover a portion of the umbilici.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Museum National d'Historie Naturelle
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
France
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists