Description
Ten valves comprising five complete freshwater mussels. Externally, the valves are tan to dark brown in color with a thick periostracum. The interiors are iridescent with a white and silver nacre. The triangular valves have deep muscle scars with large hinge teeth. The valves have pointed posterior edges and rounded anterior edges.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Blanding, William, 1773-1857
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Blanding, William, 1773-1857
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
