Cerithium muscarum, 21-237


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Description

Fifty-four turriform, marine snail shells. The shells are grey in color. A representative sample shows nine whorls with shallow sutures. The shells are ornamented with striations following under the small, numerous nodules that decrease in size approaching the apex. The shells are dextral with semi-circular apertures, thin lips and siphonal notches.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Wurdemann, Dr. John George F., 1810-1849
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Wurdemann, Dr. John George F., 1810-1849
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Florida
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists