Melampus bidentatus, 21-532


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Description

Three turbinate terrestrial snail shells. The exteriors are beige with brown color bands and are slightly reflective. The shells have six whorls, shallow sutures, and are covered with transverse growth lines. The dextral shells slit-shaped apertures. Large 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.
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists