Clanculus pharaonius, 21-561


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Description

Two trochoid marine snail shells. The exteriors are a dull pink and covered with small black and white nodules. The interiors are white. The shells have six whorls and deep, well-defined sutures. The dextral shells have oval shaped apertures, thick apertural lips, and large teeth inside the apertures.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Foreman, Edward R., 1808-1885
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
People
  • Foreman, Edward R., 1808-1885
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Red Sea
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists