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Orangefoot Pimpleback
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Orangefoot Pimpleback

Plethobasus cooperianus

The orange-footed pimpleback mussel or orangefoot pimpleback, scientific name Plethobasus cooperianus, is a rare species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This aquatic bivalve mollusk is native to the Tennessee, Cumberland, and lower Ohio Rivers in the United States, where its distribution has declined over 70%.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 109766.