Eupera Bahamensis
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''Eupera bahamensis'' is a
mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
species that inhabits fresh waters of the
Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...
in the Caribbean. ''E. bahamensis'' was first described in 1938 on Cat Island by
William J. Clench William James Clench (24 October 1897 – 22 February 1984) was an American malacologist, professor at Harvard University and curator of the mollusk collection in the malacology department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Early l ...
. The species rank is accepted and has no known subspecies.


References

Sphaeriidae Fauna of the Bahamas Freshwater bivalves Molluscs described in 1938 {{Sphaeriidae-stub