Flamingo tongue
This shell of this tropical marine snail was collected in Brazil and donated to the Museum in 1919. In life the snail’s mantle (part of its soft body) covers the shell making appear yellow with irregular black circles.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 60/1919/472
- Collection Class
- Molluscs
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collector Excavator
- Jewell, Miss Florence (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- flamingo tongue
- Simple Name
- mollusc: shell
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
