Tegula excavata, 21-551


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Description

One trochoid marine snail shell. The exterior is gray and slightly reflective. The slightly raised color bands give the exterior a rippled effect. Internally, the shell is an iridescent white. The dextral shell has five whorls, an oval shaped aperture, and an open umbilicus.


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
United Kingdom, England
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists