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White Wartyback
Plethobasus cicatricosus
The white warty-back pearly mussel or white wartyback, scientific name Plethobasus cicatricosus, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Once widely distributed in the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee River systems in the United States, it is now probably limited to the Tennessee River. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
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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 109765.