Description
Two freshwater mussel valves, one complete specimen. The exteriors are brown to tan in color with vertical, green color bands radiating from the hinges. Thin striations and growth lines run horizontally. The valves are ellipse in shape with white iridescent interiors.
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
- Illinois, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
