Image of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque 1820)
Description:
The right valve of a fragile papershell. Shell thin. External coloration a reddish brown with a few extremely faint rays. Internal nacre pink and purple near the beak and white near the margins/pallial line. Pink papershell also occur in this area and have very similar characteristics.
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- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Bivalvia (mussels)
- Palaeoheterodonta
- Unionida
- Unionoidea
- Unionidae (unionid freshwater mussels)
- Leptodea
- Leptodea fragilis
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