Description
Two freshwater mussel valves, one complete specimen. The exteriors are dark brown with obvious growth lines and protruding nodules. The periostracum is flaking near the umbos. The interiors are iridescent. The nearly circlular valves have deep and obvious hinge teeth.
Subject
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
- South Carolina, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
