Description
Two freshwater mussel valves, one complete specimen. The exteriors are light brown to tan and covered with growth lines and vertial striations. The umbos fade to white due to wear. The interiors are pure white in color, have deep hinge teeth, and subtle muscle scars.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Hume, William, 1801-1870
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942, Hume, William, 1801-1870
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Tennessee, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
