Description
Two freshwater mussel valves comprising one complete specimen. The exteriors are dark brown with visible slightly pronounced growth lines. The interior of the valves is iridescent tan and white with a pink and green sheen. The hinges are shallow and there are small 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
- Louisiana, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists