Elliptio hopetonensis, 21-403


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Description

Two valves comprising one complete freshwater mussel. The exteriors of the shells exhibit varying shades of brown to an olive green color. Interiorly, the shells are an iridescent, silver to white color. The shells are covered with growth lines and the periostracum is flaking off of near the umbos. The shells have shallow muscle scars and large hinge teeth. The ellipse shaped shells have rounded anterior edges and squared posterior edges.


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
Georgia, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists