Fresh Water Mussel Image Gallery -- Illinois State Museum

Lampsilis fasciola (Wavy-rayed Lampmussel)
The wavy-rayed lampmussel is named for the green wavy rays on its smooth, yellowish green surface. The shell is thick and rounded. This species lives in gravel riffles in medium-sized streams. In Illinois it occurs only in a small area in the east central part of the state on the Indiana border.
Conservation status: endangered in Illinois
Taxonomy: Order Unionoida; Superfamily Unionoidea; Family Unionidae; Subfamily Lampsilinae

Collection of the Illinois State Museum, photograph by Robert Warren
ISM Accession #: 679842

<b><i>Lampsilis fasciola</i> (Wavy-rayed Lampmussel)</b>

Class Bivalvia : Subclass Paleoheterodonta : Genus Lampsilis

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