Pleurobema hagleri

Pleurobema hagleri, the brown pigtoe, was a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Pleurobema hagleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species:
P. hagleri
Binomial name
Pleurobema hagleri
(Frierson, 1900)

This species was endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat was rivers.

References

  1. Bogan, A.E. 2000. Pleurobema hagleri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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