Epioblasma triquetra

Taxobox
name = "Epioblasma triquetra"


status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Epioblasma"
species = "E. triquetra"
binomial = "Epioblasma triquetra"
binomial_authority =
synonyms =

"Epioblasma triquetra", Snuffbox, is a species of bivalve in the Unionidae family.

Distribution and conservation status

It lives in Ontario in Canada and it was classified as endangered by COSEWIC. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being endangered in Canada. [COSEWIC. 2005. [http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/species/clwsa%5F0505%5Fe%2Epdf Canadian Species at Risk] . Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 13.]

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