Obliquaria reflexa, 21-474


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Description

Two freshwater mussel valves comprising one complete specimen. The exteriors are brown with three horns on each valve as ornamintation. The specimen also has pronounced growth lines. Hinge is deep, though the pallial line and muscle scars are distinct.


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.
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists