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Tar River Spinymussel
Plate 1 of 1. Dick Biggins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Tar River Spinymussel

Parvaspina steinstansana

The Tar River spiny mussel or Tar River spinymussel (Parvaspina steinstansana) is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It is endemic to North Carolina in the United States and expected to go extinct without human intervention. Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, it is an endangered species.

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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 737934.