Ochlockonee arcmussel

Ochlockonee arcmussel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Alasmidonta
Species: A. wrightiana
Binomial name
Alasmidonta wrightiana
(Walker, 1901)
Location of the Ochlockonee River

The Ochlockonee arcmussel, Alasmidonta wrightiana, was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species was endemic to the Ochlockonee River in Florida and Georgia. This river mussel is now extinct.

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