Fawnsfoot

Truncilla donaciformis

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae

Truncilla donaciformis, the fawnsfoot, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae. This species occurs in the Mississippi River drainage, Great Lakes region, Mobile basin, and Gulf Coast region in the United States, from South Dakota to Pennsylvania, south to Georgia and west to Texas as well as in southern Ontario, Canada.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 361

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Jeff Hansen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionTruncilla donaciformis, Wikipedia contributors

Fawnsfoot

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