Altamaha lance

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Altamaha lance
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Elliptio
Species: E. shepardiana
Binomial name
Elliptio shepardiana
I. Lea, 1834

The Altamaha lance (Elliptio shepardiana) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the pearly mussels, naiads or unionids.

This species is endemic to the United States.

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