Banded Tulip
Cinctura lilium
A smooth spindle-shaped shell with fine dark spiral lines over soft gray and orange.
- Typical size
- 2 to 4 inches
- How often it turns up
- Common
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Empty shells only.
No hazard.
How to tell it apart
- Smooth surface with thin dark spiral bands
- Spindle shape tapering at both ends
- Gray, cream and peach mottling
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