Yellow pigtoe

Taxobox
name = Yellow pigtoe


status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Pleurobema"
species = "P. flavidulum"
binomial = "Pleurobema flavidulum"
binomial_authority = (I. Lea, 1861)
synonyms =

The yellow pigtoe, "Pleurobema flavidulum", was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the Unionidae family. It was endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat was rivers. It is now extinct.

References

* Bogan, A.E. 2000. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/17680/all Pleurobema flavidulum] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.