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  5. ›Heteroconchia
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  8. ›Unionoidea
  9. ›Freshwater Pearl Mussels
  10. ›Margaritiferinae
  11. ›Margaritifera
Western Pearlshell
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Western Pearlshell

Margaritifera falcata

The western pearlshell (Margaritifera falcata) is a species of freshwater bivalve, a pearl mussel, a bivalve mollusk in the family Margaritiferidae. This species can be found only in the United States and Canada, where it occurs mostly west of the Rocky Mountains.

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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 148212.