Caracolus marginella, 21-332


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Description

One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The exterior is a light brown with a prominent dark brown band that extends from the aperture through each whorl fading toward the apex. The interior is marked with vertical brown striations that radiate from the apex. The shell is dextral, marked with faint growth lines and light striations, and has an open umbilicus. The aperture has a thickened lip and is semi-circular in shape.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
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
Cuba
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists