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 Edit this 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

  1. "Pleuronaia dolabelloides". NatureServe. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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