Freshwater mussels, Unio, Anodon, and marine mussels, Modiola, Crenella, Mytilus, Dreissina, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Brettingham Sowerby from his own Illustrated Index of British Shells, Sowerby and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, 1859. George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884), British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.

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