Cerion chrysalis, 21-168


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Description

Twenty-one terrestrial snail shells. Three shells in the lot are trochoid shaped while nineteen are turriform shaped. The shells are off-white and gray in color with nine whorls and raised ribs between each whorl. Some of the shells have darker spots scattered across the ornamentation. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures and thick flattened basal and outer lips.


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
Cuba
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists