Atlanticoncha ochracea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Tribe: | Lampsilini |
Genus: |
Atlanticoncha Smith, Pfeiffer & Johnson, 2020 |
Species: | A. ochracea
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Binomial name | |
Atlanticoncha ochracea (
Say, 1817)
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Atlanticoncha ochracea, the tidewater mucket, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Formerly classified in the now-defunct genus Leptodea, it is now considered the only member of the monotypic genus Atlanticoncha. [2] [3]
This species is native to the east coast of the United States and Canada ( New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). [1]