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tidewater mucket

Atlanticoncha ochracea

Classification

Family
Unionidae

Atlanticoncha ochracea, the tidewater mucket, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Formerly classified in the now-defunct genus Leptodea, it is now considered the only member of the monotypic genus Atlanticoncha. This species is native to the east coast of the United States and Canada (New Brunswick and Nova Scotia).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 141Canada · 34