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Land snail |
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132 |
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Acavus haemastoma
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is light gray in color with difficult to discern growth lines which also appear gray. Ornamentation consists of thick, dark brown color bands spanning apex to aperture. The shell is dextral with four whorls, deep sutures and an oval shaped aperture. The aperture has a thick, dark brown lip that reflects onto the body of the shell at the parietal wall.
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Achatina fulica
One turbinate, terrestrial snail shell. The coloration is white with light brown spotting. There are six whorls on the shell with vertical striations and tiny little dents throughout the shell. The shell is dextral with a "teardrop" shaped aperture.
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Alabastrina alabastrites
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The coloration is white with tan color bands and dashes. The shell has five whorls with shallow sutures. Faint growth lines and striations cover the shell. The shell is dextral with a teardrop shaped aperture and an umbilicus that is completely closed.
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Allogona profunda
Two lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. One shell is light tan in color with the other an off-white. The shells have four whorls, shallow sutures, numerous growth lines, and open umbilici. The shells are dextral with D shaped apertures and thin, slightly reflected lips that do not reflect onto the body of the shell.
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Ampelita sepulchralis
Three lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are light brown with a deep brown to maroon color bands. The colors lighten apically. The shells have four whorls, are rounded with shallow sutures, and show light striations throughout. The shells are dextral with rounded, oval-shaped apertures.
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Amphibola crenata
Two trochoid snail shells that are marine and terrestrial. The exteriors are dull and gray to brown in color. Internally, the shells are tan to brown. The shells have three to four whorls, deep, well-defined sutures, and are covered with slightly raised transverse growth lines. The dextral shells have oval shaped apertures and slightly open umbilici.
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Anguispira alternata
Fifteen lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. Nine shells are varying shades of brown with three appearing off-white with brown markings. The shells have five whorls, shallow sutures, growth lines and open umbilici. Darker markings give the shells a tiger-like coloring. The shells are dextral with D shaped apertures and thin, non-reflected lips.
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Anguispira kochi
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The exterior is covered in brown periostracum but the places where it is missing the shell appears to be light gray to white. A small amount of paper is still attached to the glue on the dorsal side of the shell where is was once adhered. Ornamentation consists of clear growth lines in a lighter shade of brown. The shell is dextral with five whorls, shallow sutures, a deep umbilicus, an elliptical aperture...
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Anguispira mordax
Three lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are off-white in color with flattened apices and completely open umbilici. Ornamentation consists of spiraled, raised lines and ribs covering each whorl. The shells are dextral with semi-circular shaped apertures.
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Arianta arbustorum
Six lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are brown in color with a darker brown color band and a representative shell has five whorls. The shells have deep sutures and are ornamented with small, wavy growth lines with specks of lighter brown along the growth lines. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures and thick lips that reflect onto the base of the shell.
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Ariophanta laevipes
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is off-white to slightly tan in color with chestnut color bands and five whorls. There is a dark black spot near the apex of the shell and faint growth lines. The shell is sinistral with a lunate and diagonal aperture.
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Bothriembryon melo
Two turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration is white with a grayish hue. There are spots of dark gray across some of the shells. The shells have five whorls each with vertical striations running across each whorl. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Bradybaena similaris - 1826
Three lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells have five whorls and are light brown in color with a single chestnut color band. The exterior is covered in growth lines and fine spiral striations. The shells are dextral with "D" shaped apertures and the lips of the apertures are slightly reflected.
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Bulimulus dealbatus
Eighteen turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are primarily white, but with varying color bands of white to gray appearing vertically across each whorl. There are five whorls on each shell. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures that have a slight fold in the columellar lip.
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Bulimulus dealbatus
Twenty turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are white in color (some with random specks of dark gray) with approximately five whorls. The shells are smooth with growth lines; a number of the shells have horizontal gray banding around the whorls. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Camaena cicatricosa
Two lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are tan in color with four whorls. Growth lines and striations cover the shells. The outer lip of the shells are thicker and reflected on the body whorl. The shells are sinistral with large, oval apertures.
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Caracolus marginella
Two lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are off-white in color and have a singular dark purple color band on the body whorl which fades to a chestnut color then to yellow at the apex. The shells have four whorls with very shallow sutures. The umbilici are semi-open. The shells are dextral with ellipse-shaped apertures. Inside the apertures are four denticles.
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Caracolus marginella
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The exterior is a light brown with a prominent dark brown band that extends from the aperture through each whorl fading toward the apex. The interior is marked with vertical brown striations that radiate from the apex. The shell is dextral, marked with faint growth lines and light striations, and has an open umbilicus. The aperture has a thickened lip and is semi-circular in shape.
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Cepaea hortensis
Eleven lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. A representative shell has four whorls with shallow, but noticeable, sutures and two thick dark brown color bands. The shells have a great variety of ornamentation. Four of the shells are a consistent shade of tan with no color banding but with fine growth lines. The remaining seven shells exhibit dark brown stripes numbering from two to five. The shells are dextral with elliptical shaped apertures and...
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Cepaea nemoralis
Eleven lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. Coloration ranges from light to dark tan. A representative shell has five whorls. All shells are ornamented with very fine growth lines and all, but the smallest have one to five color bands of brown or gray. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures and thin brown lips.
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Cerion chrysalis
Twenty-one terrestrial snail shells. Three shells in the lot are trochoid shaped while nineteen are turriform shaped. The shells are off-white and gray in color with nine whorls and raised ribs between each whorl. Some of the shells have darker spots scattered across the ornamentation. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures and thick flattened basal and outer lips.
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Cerion incanum
One turriform shell of a salt tolerant terrestrial snail. Dextral with ten whorls and faint growth lines. The shell is greyish-white with a single small parietal lamina visible in the aperture. The aperture is auriform in shape.
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Cerion rubicundum
One turriform, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is off-white to gray near the apex and body whorl but transitions a pale orange color near the apex. The shell has nine whorls with vertical ribs on each whorl. The shell is dextral with a semi-circular aperture that has a slightly reflected outer lip.
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Cernuella virgata
Four lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are off-white with darker brown color bands spiraling from the apex. The shells have growth lines, striations, and five whorls which surround a semi-open umbilici. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures which cover a portion of the umbilici.
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Chondropoma dentatum
Eight turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are white to faded brown in color. The shells have four slightly rounded whorls with deep sutures. The ornamentation consists of tiny vertical and horizontal striae that form a tiny grid pattern across each whorl. The shells are dextral, with oval-shaped apertures.
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Chondropoma pictum
Two turbinate terrestrial snail shells. The exteriors are tan and light brown in color with brown color bands near the sutures. The shells are covered with transverse growth lines, have very small ribs, four whorls and deep, well-defined sutures. The shells are dextral with semi-circular shaped apertures.
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Cistula catenata
Two turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The exteriors are cream in color with brown color bands, visible growth lines, and areas covered with a gray sediment. The dextral shells have five whorls, deep, well-defined sutures and circular apertures.
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Cistula catenata
One trochoid, terrestrial snail shell. The shell has four whorls and is off-white in color. The ornamentation includes dark brown dashed lines surrounding the whorls. The whorls are separated by deep sutures. The shell is dextral with a circular aperture.
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Clausilia bidentata
Thirty-one turriform, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration is light brown. Each shell is very narrow with a high spire and nine whorls. Between each whorl are small spiraling ribs, and denticles within the aperture. The shells are sinistral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Clausilia laminata
Thirteen turriform, elongate, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration is light gray to a dirty white. High spired, the shells have eleven whorls each. There is no noteworthy ornamentation on the shells. The shells are sinistral with "oval" shaped apertures. There are multiple denticles within the aperture of the shell, and a weak palatal callus.
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Cochlicella conoidea
One trochoid, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is off-white in color with five whorls. Each whorls has chestnut color bands and growth lines. The shell is dextral and has a misshapened, oval aperture.
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Cochlodinella poeyana
Six turriform, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are tan in color and with ten whorls each. There are vertical striations across each whorl on each shell. The shells are dextral with circular apertures.
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Cornu apertus
Three globose, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are light brown in color with three whorls. The body whorls are significantly larger than those nearing the apices. The shells are smooth overall with growth lines on each whorl and lighter bases. The shells are dextral with wide, oval-shaped apertures.
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Cornu aspersum
Six lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells vary in color from tan to light brown with dark brown color bands. One of the specimens has a dotted pattern of lighter markings. The shells have four whorls and vertical growth lines. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures.
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Corona regina
One turbinate bulloid, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is light-brown with darker-brown irregular vertical lines running the length of the shell and appearing on each of the six whorls which are separated by dark brown sutures. The shell is sinistral with a "teardrop" shaped aperture. The peristrome is dark brown on the along the parietal callus.
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Cyclophorus semisulcatus
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is off-white in color with a singular dark brown color band on the lowest whorl and spots of light brown covering the shell. There are four whorls on the shell with deep sutures and an open umbilicus. The shell is dextral with an semi-circular shaped aperture and a wide, thick inner lip.
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Daedalochila auriformis
Eighteen lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. The shells are gray to white in color. A representative shell has five whorls and deep sutures. The shells are dextral with semi-circular apertures and slightly reflected, thin lips. The representative shell shows two denticles in the aperture.
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Discus patulus
Two lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. One shell is an off-white and the other a dark brown color. The apices are flattened and the umbilici are open and completely concave. The shells have six whorls along with distinct striations and radial ribbing. The shells are dextral with very rounded apertures.
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Drymaeus (Mesembrinus) vincentinus
Three turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. One shell is faded, one shell is white, and one has well-preserved coloration each has six whorls. The two shells with coloration: each whorl has two brown color bands with equal thickness on a white shell. The third shell is white with no coloration. All three shells are dextral, with a "D" shaped aperture.
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Erctella mazzullii
One turbinate, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is off-white in color with four whorls. The ornamentation consists of clearly defined vertical striations. The shell is dextral with a wide, oval aperture. The outer lip of the aperture is slightly reflected.
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Euglandina rosea
Two turriform, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration is off-white to light gray. Shell 21-019.2 has a pinkish hue to it. There are six whorls on both shells with deep vertical grooves along each whorl. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Euglandina rosea
Three obovate, terrestrial snail shells. Shells 21-009B.1 and 21-009B.2 are tan, with a rosy pink hue. Shell 21-009B.3 is tan. Each shell has five whorls, with vertical striations across each whorl. Some of the striations have deep grooves. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Euglandina rosea
One obovate, terrestrial snail shell that is light-brown in color. The shell has four whorls and vertical striations running across each whorl of the shell. The shell is dextral with a "teardrop" shaped aperture.
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Euglandina rosea
Two turbinate, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration on shell 21-022.2 is light brown to gray. The coloration on shell 21-022.1 is a white and rosy hue. The shells have vertical striations across each whorl, with each shell having five whorls each. The shells are dextral with "teardrop" shaped apertures.
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Eutrochatella pulchella
Two trochoid, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration of the shells ranges from off-white to gray with darker spots of gray adding minor ornamentation. The shells have six whorls with small nodules covering the body whorls. Striations cover the entire exterior of the shells with some areas having a slightly thicker peristome. The shells are dextral with oval shaped apertures.
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Excavata costata
Two lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. One is a creamy tan color and the other is light gray in color. Raised striae and growth lines run horizontally around the shells. The shells are dextral with tear-drop shaped apertures.
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Glyphyalinia sculptilis
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is white with approximately five whorls. The shell has growth lines around each whorl. The sutures between each whorl are present but shallow. The shell is dextral, with an oval aperture.
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Gongylostoma elegans
Nineteen turriform, terrestrial snail shells. The coloration varies by whorl from white to gray to light brown. Each shell has eleven whorls with little to no ornamentation. The shells are smooth with tiny vertical striations. The shells are dextral with circular shaped apertures.
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Haplotrema concavum
One lenticular, terrestrial snail shell. The shell is white with four whorls, growth bands and deep sutures. The base of the shell has an open umbilicus. The shell is dextral with an oval-shaped aperture.
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Helicella itala
Five lenticular, terrestrial snail shells. Coloration is a creamy, white to gray with faint, tan to light brown, spiraling color bands. The shells are depressed with open umbilici and low, convex spires. Growth lines are present along with shallow suturing between the five whorls. The shells are dextral with elliptical apertures.
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