Ptychobranchus fasciolaris, 21-395


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Description

Two valves that form one complete freshwater mussel specimen. The vavles are light brown in color with spots of darker brown spread across their exterior. The valves reach a white color on their hinges, and are also covered in thin horizontal growth lines that radiate from the hinges of the valves to their edges. The interior of the shells are white in color with a pearlescent hue.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Hume, William, 1801-1870
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Hume, William, 1801-1870
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Tennessee, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists