| Southern acorn riffle shell | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionoida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Epioblasma |
| Species: | E. othcaloogensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Epioblasma othcaloogensis (I. Lea, 1857) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Dysnomia othcaloogensis I. Lea, 1857 |
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The southern acorn riffle shell or southern acornshell, scientific name Epioblasma othcaloogensis, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
This species is only known from the Coosa and Cahaba Rivers of the southeastern United States.[1]
This mussel has not been located recently and some scientists believe it is extinct.[2]