Description
Two freshwater mussel valves comprising one complete specimen. The exteriors are dark brown to grey and white due to flaking all over the exteriors. There are visible growth lines where there is no flaking. The interiors are creamy white and 21-473.2 has a historic notation written on the ventral margin. Both valves have deep hinges, visible muscle scars, and wide ventral margins.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Hume, Alexander, 1795-1848
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Hume, Alexander, 1795-1848
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Walker, Bryant, 1856-1936
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Tennessee, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
