Amblema plicata, 21-282

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Description

One freshwater valve. The shell is dark brown/black in color with a white umbo. The nacre on the ventral side is an iridescent white, pink, and green (mother of pearl) with a noticeable change at the ventral margin, where it gets slightly more of a tan color.

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
Alabama, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists