Lasmigona compressa

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Lasmigona compressa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Lasmigona
Species:
L. compressa
Binomial name
Lasmigona compressa
I. Lea, 1829

Lasmigona compressa, the creek heelsplitter, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve in the family Unionidae.

Mussel Common name for members of several families of bivalve molluscs

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Aquatic animal under water animals

An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime. Many insects such as mosquitoes, mayflies, dragonflies and caddisflies have aquatic larvae, with winged adults. Aquatic animals may breathe air or extract oxygen that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through the skin. Natural environments and the animals that live in them can be categorized as aquatic (water) or terrestrial (land). This designation is paraphyletic.

Unionidae family of molluscs

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This species is found in the northern region of North America. It is native to the Canadian interior basin, and the drainages of the St. Lawrence River and the Ohio River.

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References

  1. ↑ Bogan, A.E. 1996. Lasmigona compressa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2007-12-06 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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