Salamander mussel

Salamander mussel

Taxobox
name = Salamander mussel


status = LR/cd | status_system = IUCN2.3 [Bogan, A.E. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/20247/all Simpsonaias ambigua] . [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 = "Simpsonaias"
species = "S. ambigua"
binomial = "Simpsonaias ambigua"
binomial_authority = Say, 1825
synonyms = Simpsoniconcha ambigua (Say, 1825)

"Simpsonaias ambigua", the salamander mussel, Mudpuppy Mussel, is a species of bivalve in the Unionidae family.

Distribution and conservation status

It lives in Ontario in Canada and it is endangered species there. 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.]

It lives in the United States too.

Reference


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