Chama florida, 21-109


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Description

Three patellate, salt water clam valves. Coloration is white and gray with small spots of pink and purple around the beak and exterior of the shells. Ornamentation includes raised striae or evidence of previously existing raised striae along the growth lines. Contributed by Mr. C. Gibbes.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
West Indies
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists