Pleuronaia dolabelloides
Pleuronaia dolabelloides, the slab-sided naiad, slab-sided pearly mussel, or slabside pearlymussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species was formerly classified under the genus Lexingtonia.
Pleuronaia dolabelloides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Genus: | Pleuronaia |
Species: | P. dolabelloides |
Binomial name | |
Pleuronaia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) | |
Synonyms | |
Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) |
This species is endemic to the Tennessee River system in the United States.[2]
References
- "Pleuronaia dolabelloides". NatureServe. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- E., Bogan, Arthur; Farms., American Pearl (1998). The freshwater mussels of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1572330139. OCLC 37980671.
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