Pleurocera vestita, 21-546


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Description

One turriform freshwater snail shell. The shell is tan in color but grows darker in color approaching the apex. Internally, the shell is cream in color. The shell has eight flat whorls. The shell has well-defined sutures, which form small ledges between the whorls. The shell is dextral and is covered with transverse growth lines. The shell has an oval shaped aperture.


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
Kaskaskia River, Illinois, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists