Glebula

Glebula
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 (Lamarck, 1819) [1]

Glebula rotundata, the round pearlshell, is a freshwater mussel, and an aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae. As the only species in the genus Glebula, it is unusual among unionoid mussels for its abiltiy to tolerate brackish water. ^[2]

It is found in the drainages of the Gulf Coast, as well as in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

References

1. "Glebula rotundata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 18 September 2018.
2. Haag, Wendell R. (2012). North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0521199384.