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| Pyganodon grandis | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Pyganodon |
| Species: | P. grandis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | |
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Pyganodon grandis, the giant floater, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is fast-growing, large, and has a short lifespan. It is variable and widespread across the United States and southeastern Canada.
Original description (Say 1829): "Shell very large, subovate; disk unequally wrinkled and undulated transversely, dark yellowish brown; umbo elevated; beak slightly elevated, with generally, two or three small sinuous, acute undulations; hinge margin slightly arquated, sometimes nearly rectilinear, somewhat angulated at its anterior termination, thence the edge descends by a nearly rectilinear, or slightly concave line to the anterior margin, which is considerably narrowed; sinus of the hinge margin concave; posterior margin widely rounded; within white margined, particularly before, with dusky."
References
- Cummings, K.; Cordeiro, J. (2012). "Pyganodon grandis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T189102A1919024. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T189102A1919024.en. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- "Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- "MUSSELp | Mussel of the Month". mussel-project.uwsp.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
- Binney, W.G. 1858. The complete writings of Thomas Say on the conchology of the United States. Bailliere Publ. NY
- Haag, W. R. (2012). North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521199384
- Say, T. 1829. Descriptions of some new terrestrial and fluviatile shells of North America. New Harmony Disseminator of Useful Knowledge, New Harmony, Indiana. (see the description also in Binney's summary of Say's writing, 1858).
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| Pyganodon grandis | |
| Anodonta grandis | |
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