Cyclonaias tuberculata

Cyclonaias tuberculata
Cyclonaias tuberculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Quadrulini
Genus: Cyclonaias
Species: C. tuberculata
Binomial name
Cyclonaias tuberculata
Rafinesque, 1820

Cyclonaias tuberculata, the sole species in the genus Cyclonaias, is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species is native to eastern North America, generally in the Mississippi River drainage.

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