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Plethobasus
Plethobasus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sheepnose
speciesPlethobasus cyphyus

White Wartyback
speciesPlethobasus cicatricosus

Orangefoot Pimpleback
speciesPlethobasus cooperianus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 91169.