Lampsilis ovata, 21-438


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Description

Two freshwater mussel valves (not from the same specimen). The exteriors are dark brown, brown, to tan in color. The shells have silver interior nacre and a thick periostracum that is flaking from wear near the umbos. The elongated, triangularly shells are covered with growth lines and striations. The shells have moderately sized muscle scars, large hinge teeth and rounded anterior and 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
Ohio, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists