Description
Six freshwater mussel valves, three complete specimens. The exteriors are dark brown fading to white near the umbos due to wear. Subtle growth lines also appear on the exterior. The interiors are iridescent and white with visible muscle scars.
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
- Georgia, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
