Melampus bidentatus, 21-531


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Description

Ten turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are brown to tan in color. The shells are slightly reflective. The shells have four whorls, shallow sutures, and are covered with 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
South Carolina, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists