Description
Fourteen freshwater mussels, seven complete specimens. The exteriors of the shells vary in color from black-brown, tan, red-brown, to white with visible striae and chipping at the umbo. The interiors of the shells are a pearlescent white with a pink and green sheen. The ventral margins and muscle scars are visible.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Couper, James Hamilton, 1794-1866
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Couper, James Hamilton, 1794-1866
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Altamaha River,Georgia, United States
- South Carolina, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists