Black clubshell

Black clubshell

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. curtum
Binomial name
Pleurobema curtum
I. Lea, 1859

The black clubshell or Curtus's mussel (Pleurobema curtum) a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Cummings, K. & Cordeiro, J. (2012). "Pleurobema curtum". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T17666A1443222. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T17666A1443222.en. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
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