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Topic Categories: AMNH Subway Art • My Pictures • NYC Through My Eye • NYC life • Photography
Posted on: March 11, 2008 7:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: mystery snail, marine life, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Mystery snail -- can you name the species?
as portrayed in tiles on the downtown stairway landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
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Comments
That's Snailus Artdeco, driven to extinction back in the forties by greedy poachers who sold their shells for use as lampshades.
Posted by: Bob | March 12, 2008 11:51 AM