Mussels (Bivalvia, family Unionidae) from the Saline River. This is an incomplete list as some specimens are still being identified. * Not found in this study, but found further downstream (Davidson, C.L. 1997. Analysis of the mussel beds in the Little Missouri and Saline Rivers, Blue Mountain, Ozark and Dardanelle Lakes, Arkansas. MS thesis, Arkansas State University. 156 pp.).
Alasmidonta marginata | elktoe |
Actinonaias ligamentina | mucket |
Amblema plicata | threeridge |
Anodonta suborbiculata | flat floater* |
Cyprogenia aberti | western fanshell |
Ellipsaria lineolata | butterfly* |
Elliptio dilatata | spike |
Fusconaia flava | Wabash pigtoe |
Fusconaia ebena | ebonyshell |
Lampsilis abrubta | pink mucket* |
Lampsilis cardium | plain pocketbook |
Lampsilis hydiana | Louisiana fatmucket* |
Lampsilis powelli | Arkansas fatmucket |
Lampsilis satura | sandbank pocketbook |
Lampsilis teres | yellow sandshell* |
Lasmigona costata | fluted-shell |
Leptodea fragilis | fragile papershell * |
Ligumia subrostrata | pondmussel* |
Megalonaias nervosa | washboard* |
Obliquaria reflexa | threehorn wartyback* |
Obovaria jacksoniana | southern hickorynut* |
Plectomerus dombeyanus | bankclimber* |
Pleurobema sintoxia | round pigtoe |
Potamilus purpuratus | bleufer* |
Ptychobranchus occidentalis | Ouachita kidneyshell |
Pyganodon grandis | giant floater |
Quadrula pustulosa | pimpleback |
Quadrula metanevra | monkeyface* |
Quadrula nodulata | wartyback* |
Quadrula quadrula | mapleleaf* |
Strophitus undulatus | creeper |
Toxolasma lividus | purple lilliput* |
Tritogonia verrucosa | pistolgrip |
Truncilla donaciformis | fawnsfoot* |
Truncilla truncata | deertoe* |
Utterbackia imbecillis | paper pondshell |
Villosa iris | rainbow |
Villosa lienosa | little spectaclecase |