Description
Six turbinate marine snail shells. The exteriors are a glossy tan in color and appearance with some shells having darker color streaks. The shells have four to five whorls, deep well-defined sutures, and are covered in transverse growth lines. The shells are dextral with semi-circular shaped apertures.
Subject
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
- New York Bay
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
