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Floater Mussels
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Floater Mussels

Pyganodon

Pyganodon is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Giant Floater

speciesPyganodon grandis

Eastern Floater

speciesPyganodon cataracta

Lake Floater

speciesPyganodon lacustris

Newfoundland Floater

speciesPyganodon fragilis

Inflated Floater

speciesPyganodon gibbosa

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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 91597.