Plicopurpura patula, 21-287


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Description

One turbinate, marine snail shell. The dorsal side is dark gray with brown nodules. The shell has three whorls with majority of the shell being the body whorl which has prominent nodes. The nodules run along the shell with the growth lines. The apertural side is gray and a cream white in color. The inductura is a half peach pink and half dark purple brown. The shell is dextral with a D-shaped aperture.


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
East Indies
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists