Description
Two ellipse shaped freshwater mussel valves, comprising one complete specimen. The exteriors are a tan-green color with dark striations radiating from the posterior. There are also circles, silver in color, near the posterior portions. The interiors of the valves are white with a glossy, slightly iridescent coating.
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
- Lake Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
