Melampus coffea, 21-534


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Description

Two turbinate terrestrial snail shells. The exteriors are beige and are slightly reflective. The shells have six whorls, shallow sutures, and are covered in transverse growth lines. The dextral shells have slit-shaped apertures. Small teeth are visible inside the shells' apertures.


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
Key West, Monroe County, Florida, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists