Polymita picta, 21-180


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Description

One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is a bright yellow color with a dark brown color band spiraling from the flattened apex. The shell has three whorls with extremely shallow sutures and very faint growth lines covering the shell. The shell is dextral with a large oval-shaped aperture.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1818
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
Cuba
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists