Pleurocera clavaeformis, 21-557


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Description

Seventeen turbinate freshwater snail shells. The exteriors are varying shades of brown, with the darker hues near the apices and lighter hues near the apertures. The shells have a slightly reflective appearance and are covered with transverse growth lines. Internally the shells are brown. The shells have five whorls with deep sutures. The dextral shells have oval shaped apertures.


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
Tennessee, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists