Carnivorous land snail

Terrestrial snail shell from the collection of Miss JE Linter. She bequeathed her collection containing over 15,000 shells to RAMM in 1909. She wrote ‘For many years I have been collecting exotic land shells, in fact, my collection is about as complete as it can well be, and I have spared no expense or labour in making it and keeping it up to date, by securing representatives in the finest condition of all new species found and described.’

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
1720/1909/D15/72/1
Collection Class
Molluscs
Collection Area Region
Australia and New Zealand
Collector Excavator
Linter, Miss Juliana Emma (from the collection of)
Common Name
carnivorous land snail
Simple Name
mollusc: shell
Period Classification
Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)

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rhytididae: Rhytida dunniae Gray.