Pleuronaia dolabelloides, the slab-sided naiad, slab-sided pearly mussel, or slabside pearlymussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species was formerly classified under the genus Lexingtonia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Pleuronaia |
| Species: | P. dolabelloides
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleuronaia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840)
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| Synonyms | |
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Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) | |
This species is endemic to the Tennessee River system in the United States.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Pleuronaia dolabelloides". NatureServe. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- ^ E., Bogan, Arthur; Farms., American Pearl (1998). The freshwater mussels of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1572330139. OCLC 37980671.
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