Historic Southern Naturalists Project Specimen - Fasciolaria tulipa

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Description: English: Two turbinate, saltwater marine snail shells. Both shells have seven whorls with deep sutures. Shell 21.411.1 is much smaller in size and is a peach-tan in color. 21.411.2 is brown and white, and large in size. The color pattern on both shells are the same with the darker color running in bands, vertically from the apices to the apertures. The apertures are dextral with an elongated siphonal canal. Photo by Katy Self as part of the Historic Southern Naturalists Project at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum. Date: 29 October 2019, 12:42:11. Source: Own work. Author: University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum .