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Utterbackia imbecillis (paper pondshell)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Utterbackia imbecilis (paper pondshell) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It is thin-shelled and thousands of individuals can inhabit a single pond.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Planktivore, Detritivore

Predators

Aythya affinis (Lesser Scaup)[2]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0