Description
Ten turriform, marine snail shells. The shells are tan to grey in color. A representative sample shows nine whorls with deep sutures. The representative shell is ornamented with growth lines which give the shell a wavy appearance, these lines become smaller and more faint approaching the apex. The shells are dextral with semi-circular apertures.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- 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
- Key West, Monroe County, Florida, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
