Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel

Taxobox
name = Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel


status = CR | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Quadrula"
species = "Q. sparsa"
binomial = "Quadrula sparsa"
binomial_authority = (Lea, 1841)
synonyms = The appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel or appalachian monkeyface ("Quadrula sparsa") is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, or river mussels.

This species is endemic to the United States.

ource

* Bogan, A.E. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19042/all Quadrula sparsa] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.