Description
Two freshwater mussel valves, one complete specimen. The exteriors are dark to light brown with subtle growth lines, and areas near the umbos where the shell appears white due to flaking of the periostrocum. Muscle scars are visible on the iridescent interiors of the valves.
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
- Georgia
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
