Fasciolaria tulipa, 21-411


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Description

Two turbinate, saltwater marine snail shells. The shells have seven whorls with deep sutures. The smaller shell is peach and white (21.411.1) and the larger shell (21.411.2) has tan and white. The color pattern on both shells is the same with the alternating bands of color and white running vertically from the apices to the apertures. The apertures are dextral with an elongated 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
South Carolina, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists