Glebula
Glebula | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Tribe: | Lampsilini |
Genus: | Glebula Conrad, 1853 |
Species: | G. rotundata |
Binomial name | |
Glebula rotundata |
Glebula rotundata, the round pearlshell, is a freshwater mussel, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae. The only species in the genus Glebula, it is unusual among unionoid mussels in that it can tolerate brackish water.[2]
It is found on the drainages of the Gulf Coast, as well as in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
References
[edit]- ^ "Glebula rotundata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ Haag, Wendell R. (2012). North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521199384.