Atlanticoncha
Species of bivalve From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlanticoncha ochracea, the tidewater mucket, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Formerly classified in the now-defunct genus Leptodea, it is now considered the only member of the monotypic genus Atlanticoncha.[2][3]
| Atlanticoncha | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Tribe: | Lampsilini |
| Genus: | Atlanticoncha Smith, Pfeiffer & Johnson, 2020 |
| Species: | A. ochracea |
| Binomial name | |
| Atlanticoncha ochracea (Say, 1817) | |
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This species is native to the east coast of the United States and Canada (New Brunswick and Nova Scotia).[1]
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