Fresh Water Mussel Image Gallery -- Illinois State Museum

Lasmigona costata (Fluted-shell)
The interior of the Fluted-shell mussel has white or bluish-white nacre, sometimes tinted with salmon in the shallow beak cavity. The pseudocardinal teeth are thick; lateral teeth are short and not well developed.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum, photograph by Karen Little
ISM Accession #: 676150

<b><i>Lasmigona costata</i> (Fluted-shell)</b>

Class Bivalvia : Subclass Paleoheterodonta : Genus Lasmigona

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