Alabama clubshell

Alabama clubshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. troschelianum
Binomial name
Pleurobema troschelianum
(I. Lea, 1852)

The Alabama clubshell (Pleurobema troschelianum) was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.

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