Arcuate pearly mussel

Arcuate pearly mussel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Epioblasma
Species: E. flexuosa
Binomial name
Epioblasma flexuosa
(Rafinesque, 1820)
Synonyms

Dysnomia flexuosa Rafinesque, 1820

The arcuate pearly mussel or leafshell, Epioblasma flexuosa, 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. It became extinct due to habitat loss.

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