Dot snail
- Description
- 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.’
- Accession Loan No.
- 1720/1909/D16/45/2
- Collection Class
- Molluscs
- Common Name
- dot snail
- Simple Name
- mollusc: shell
- Full Name
- Paralaoma caputspinulae (Reeve)
- Dimensions
- shell H mm; shell width mm
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901); Edwardian (1901-1914)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Linter, Miss Juliana Emma (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Waiuku
- Collection County
- North Island: Auckland
- Collection Country
- New Zealand
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
- Phylum
- MOLLUSCA
- Family
- punctidae
- Genus
- Paralaoma
- Species
- caputspinulae
