Description
Ten valves forming five complete freshwater mussels. The exteriors are light brown with dark blue/black color bands that radiate from the umbo to the outer edge of the shells. Growth lines are visible. The interiors are iridescent white, pink, and green with visible muscle scars. The smallest specimen remains complete and sealed.
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
- Ohio River, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
