Hippopus hippopus, 21-425


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Description

One medium sized valve of a saltwater clam. The thick white shell is littered with purple-pink dashes. Striae run from the hinge to the outer edge and along with spines. The interior side of the shell is white with a jagged edge.


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.
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists