This is a demonstration of the ISM freshwater mussel image gallery.
Class Bivalvia : Subclass Paleoheterodonta : Genus Lampsilis
Lampsilis abrupta (Pink Mucket)
The pink mucket mussel has a rounded, thick, smooth, yellowish brown shell. It grows to four inches in length. This species lives in the sand and gravel of the lower Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their larger tributaries. In Illinois that would be in a small area on the Missouri border south of St. Louis and in the far southeast along the Ohio.
Conservation status: endangered federally and in Illinois
Taxonomy: Order Unionoida; Superfamily Unionoidea; Family Unionidae; Subfamily Lampsilinae
Collection of the Illinois State Museum, photograph by Karen Little
ISM Accession #: 675668
Class Bivalvia : Subclass Paleoheterodonta : Genus Lampsilis
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