Tennessee heelsplitter

Tennessee heelsplitter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Lasmigona
Species: L. holstonia
Binomial name
Lasmigona holstonia
I. Lea, 1838

The Tennessee heelsplitter, Lasmigona holstonia, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae.

This species is endemic to the United States.

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