Fine-lined pocketbook

Fine-lined pocketbook
Lampsilis Altilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Lampsilini
Genus: Hamiota
Species: H. altilis
Binomial name
Hamiota altilis
Conrad, 1834

The fine-lined pocketbook, scientific name Hamiota altilis, is 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. ↑ Bogan, A.E. 1996. Hamiota altilis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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