Alabama lamp naiad

Alabama lamp naiad
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Lampsilis
Species: L. virescens
Binomial name
Lampsilis virescens
(Lea, 1858)

The Alabama lamp naiad, Alabama lamp pearly mussel, or Alabama lampmussel, scientific name Lampsilis virescens, 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. This river mussel is currently limited to the Paint Rock River drainage in northeastern Alabama.

This mussel grows up to 6 centimeters long and is straw-colored or greenish and smooth and shiny.[1]

References

  1. Lampsilis virescens. The NatureServe Explorer.

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