Wild About Illinois Mussels! - Images

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1. threeridge (Amblema plicata)
2. Wabash pigtoe (Fusconaia flava)

3. washboard (Megalonaias nervosa)
4. mapleleaf (Quadrula quadrula)

5. plain pocketbook (Lampsilis cardium)
6. threehorn wartyback (Obliquaria reflexa)

7. pimpleback (Quadrula pustulosa)
8. fawnsfoot (Truncilla donaciformis)

9. deertoe (Truncilla truncata) 
10. paper pondshell (Utterbackia imbecillis)

11. elktoe (Alasmidonta margianat)
12. yellow sandshell (Lampsilis teres)

13. monkeyface (Quadrula metanerva) [state threatened]
14. pistolgrip (Tritogonia verrucosa)

15. ellipse (Venustaconcha ellipsiformis)
16. purple wartyback (Cyclonaias tuberculata) [state threatened]

17. fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria) [state and federally endangered]
18. butterfly (Ellipsaria lineolata) [state threatened]

19. spike (Elliptio dilatata) [state endangered]
20. snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra) [state and federally endangered]

21. wavy-rayed lampmussel (Lampsilis fasciola) [state endangered]
22. sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus) [state and federally endangered]

23. clubshell (Pleurobema clava) [state and federally endangered]
24. kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus fasciolaris) [state endangered]

25. rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica) [state and federally endangered]
26. rainbow (Villosa iris) [state threatened]

27. leafshell (Epioblasma flexuosa)
28. round combshell (Epioblasma personata)

29. Tennessee riffleshell (Epioblasma propinqua)
30. tubercled blossom (Epioblasma torulosa)

31. zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) (attached to Potamilus alatus, pink heelsplitter)
32. Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea)