Land snail shell
Specimens from Miss Linter’s shell collection. Shells cited in De Mattia W, Neiber MT, Groh K (2018) Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago), with descriptions of new recent and fossil taxa (Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Geomitridae). ZooKeys 732: 1-125. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.732.21677 . Paper states the specimens were collected alive (not subfossils) and that Helix turricula var. pererosa Wollaston, 1878 as a junior synonym of Wollastonia turricula as no substantial morphological differences could be observed.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1720/1909/D39/74/1
- Collection Class
- Molluscs
- Collection Area Region
- West Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Linter, Miss Juliana Emma (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- land snail shell
- Simple Name
- mollusc: shell
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
