Description
Two freshwater mussel valves, one complete specimen. The exteriors are dark brown and white near the umbos where the periostracum is flaking due to wear. Growth lines are also present on the exteriors. The interiors are iridescent and show muscle scars.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- White, George Washington, 1802-1887
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942, White, George Washington, 1802-1887
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Etowah River, Alabama, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
