Scale shell

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Scale shell
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Leptodea
Species: L. leptodon
Binomial name
Leptodea leptodon
Rafinesque, 1820

The scale shell or scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon) is a species of bivalve in the Unionidae family. It is endemic to the United States.

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