Margarites groenlandicus, 21-552


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Description

One trochoid marine snail shell. The exterior is a dull tan color with an area of dark brown on the dorsal side. The shell has five whorls, deep, well-defined sutures, and is covered with spiral raised lines. The dextral shell has a rounded aperture and an open umbilicus.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Foreman, Edward R., 1808-1885
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
People
  • Foreman, Edward R., 1808-1885
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Massachusetts, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists