Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Conchologia Iconica, or Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals, Vol. 5: Containing Monographs of the Genera, Bulimus, Achatina, Dolium, Cassis, Turritella, Mesalia, Eglisia, Cassidaria, Oniscia, Eburna
Reeve's bulimus. Shell oblong-ovate, whorls six in munher, rather swollen, last whorl ventricose and ch'ased; rich burnt-brown, with the epidermis in remarkable rather broad bands and fine lines, aper tine blueish white, columella scarcely twisted, and, together with the peritreme, of a livid purple hue.
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