Description
Six rounded triangular shaped freshwater mussel valves comprise three complete specimen. The exterior of the valves are an olive-brown color with dots of black. The exterior also exhibits growth lines and striations which radiate from the hinge. The interiors of the shells are white with a faint glossy iridescent hue.
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
- Ohio, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
