Carolina elktoe

Carolina elktoe

Taxobox
name = Carolina elktoe


status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Alasmidonta"
species = "A. robusta"
binomial = "Alasmidonta robusta"
binomial_authority = Clarke, 1981
synonyms =

The Carolina elktoe, "Alasmidonta robusta", was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species is now extinct.

Distribution

This species was endemic to the United States.

References

* Bogan, A.E 2000. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/777/all Alasmidonta robusta] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 06 August 2007.


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