Lithasia geniculata, 21-543


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Description

Two turbinate, freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are dark tan and dark brown in color. Internally, the shells are white. The shells have three whorls, deep, well-defined sutures, and are covered with transverse growth lines and nodules. The dextral shells have tear-drop shaped apertures.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Newcomb, Wesley, 1818-1892
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Newcomb, Wesley, 1818-1892
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Alabama, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists