Fine-rayed pearly mussel

Fine-rayed pearly mussel
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionoida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Epioblasma
Species:	E. personata
Binomial name
Epioblasma personata (Say, 1829)
Synonyms
Dysnomia personata Say, 1829

The fine-rayed pearly mussel or round combshell, Epioblasma personata, is an extinct 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 rivers. It became extinct due to habitat loss; not collected for more than a century, by 1983 it was considered extinct.

Source

• Bogan, A.E. 2000. Epioblasma personata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.