Thiara amarula, 21-529


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Description

Two turbinate, freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are brown to dark brown and dull in appearance. Internally, the shells are cream slightly iridescent. The shells have four whorls, deep, well-defined sutures, and are covered with transverse growth lines and slightly reflective spines. The dextral shells have oval-shaped apertures, slightly reflected white lips, and depressed apices.


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
Madagascar
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists