''Alasmidonta wrightiana'', the Ochlockonee arcmussel, was a
species of
freshwater mussel, an
aquatic bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
mollusk in the family
Unionidae, the river mussels.
This species was
endemic to the
Ochlockonee River in
Florida and
Georgia. This river mussel is now
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
.
References
Extinct bivalves
wrightiana
Bivalves described in 1901
Taxa named by Edmund Murton Walker
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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