Longnut

Longnut
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. nucleopsis
Binomial name
Pleurobema nucleopsis
(Conrad, 1849)

The longnut, scientific name Pleurobema nucleopsis, 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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