Ellipsaria lineolata

Ellipsaria lineolata
A live individual of Ellipsaria lineolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Lampsilini
Genus: Ellipsaria
Species: E. lineolata
Binomial name
Ellipsaria lineolata
Rafinesque, 1820

Ellipsaria lineolata is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This is the sole species in the monotypic genus Ellipsaria . This species is native to the drainage systems of the Mississippi River and the Mobile River in the United States.

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