Yellow lampmussel

Taxobox
name = Yellow lampmussel


status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3 [Bogan, A.E. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/11254/all "Lampsilis cariosa"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Lampsilis"
species = "L. cariosa"
binomial = "Lampsilis cariosa"
binomial_authority = (Say, 1817)
synonyms = The yellow lampmussel ("Lampsilis cariosa") is a species of bivalve in the Unionidae family.

Its natural habitat are rivers.

Distribution and conservation status

It is found in Canada and the United States.

It lives in New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern 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 27.]

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