Carolina elktoe

Carolina elktoe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Alasmidonta
Species: A. robusta
Binomial name
Alasmidonta robusta
Clarke, 1981
Location of Montgomery County, North Carolina

The Carolina elktoe (Alasmidonta robusta) was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Distribution

This species was endemic to North Carolina, and was known only from its type specimen collected in Montgomery County, North Carolina. No specimens have been found since, and is presumed extinct.

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