Biology:Pleuronaia dolabelloides

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Short description: Species of bivalve

Pleuronaia dolabelloides
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Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
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)

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.

This species is endemic to the Tennessee River system in the United States .[2]

References

  1. "Pleuronaia dolabelloides". NatureServe. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Pleuronaia+dolabelloides+. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
  2. E., Bogan, Arthur; Farms., American Pearl (1998). The freshwater mussels of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1572330139. OCLC 37980671. 

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