Oxymeris areolata - view 1

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Name: view 1
View of: Oxymeris areolata
Type of resource: still image
Media type: image/tiff
Contributor: Bradford, Kendra (photographer)
Publisher: Digital object published by Biology Department, Western Washington University.
Physical location: Western Washington University
Identifier (local): Dept_00060_01
Identifier (mabel PID): wwu:40651

Description

Name: Oxymeris areolata
Name variants: Genus-species: Oxymeris areolata
Old genus-species: Terebra areolata
Common name: Spotted auger shell
Description: small, slender, long cream colored with brown pattern. Mathematical exactness, Polynesians made chisels with them to build canoes, flesh is eaten.
Note: Family: Terebridae
Author citation: Link, 1807
Collection: Departmental Shell Collection
Type of resource: still image
Media type: image/tiff
Contributor: Bradford, Kendra (photographer)
Ross, June R. P. (collector)
Publisher: Digital object published by Biology Department, Western Washington University.
Physical location: Western Washington University
Identifier (local): Dept_00060
Identifier (mabel PID): wwu:40600