Description
Two freshwater mussel valves comprising one complete specimen. The exteriors are brown to tan in color with visible growth lines,the valves have a small amount of white showing at the umbos due to wear. The hinges are shallow with distinct muscle scars and a wide ventral margin.
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
- Altamaha River, Georgia, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
