Brown pigtoe

Brown pigtoe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. hagleri
Binomial name
Pleurobema hagleri
Frierson, 1900

The brown pigtoe, scientific name Pleurobema hagleri, 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. Its natural habitat was rivers.

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