Yellow pigtoe

Yellow pigtoe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. flavidulum
Binomial name
Pleurobema flavidulum
(I. Lea, 1861)

The yellow pigtoe, Pleurobema flavidulum, was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the Unionidae family. It was endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat was rivers. It is now extinct.

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