Rio Grande monkeyface

Rio Grande monkeyface
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Quadrula
Species: Q. couchiana
Binomial name
Quadrula couchiana
I. Lea, 1860

The Rio Grande monkeyface, scientific name Quadrula couchiana, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species is endemic to the United States.

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