Abra alba, 21-330


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Description

Five oval shaped marine valves, (includes one complete bivalve). The shells are off-white in color with a pale brown periostracum. The posterior and anterior margins are smooth and rounded. The interiors of the shells are white with a glossy appearance. The shells are marked with faint horizontal growth lines.


Subject

  • Invertebrates
  • Mollusks


Details

Date
1810
Creator
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Contributor
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
  • Phillips, John H., 1800-1874
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Europe
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists