Gemophos viverratus, 21-296


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Description

One turbinate, marine snail shell. The shell is chocolate brown with white dashed color bands that are tightly wound around the shell. Suturing is very shallow and the apex is missing, at least three whorls present. The shell is dextral with an ovate aperture and short siphonal canal.


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
Senegal
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists