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Yellow Sandshell
Species IUCN · Least Concern (LC)

Yellow Sandshell

Lampsilis teres, (Rafinesque, 1820)

freshwater

About Yellow Sandshell

Lampsilis teres, the yellow sandshell or slough sandshell, is a freshwater mussel native to the United States and Mexico. Although it is considered a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List, it is extirpated from (locally extinct) and endangered in parts of its range.

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