Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel
The Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel or Appalachian monkeyface, scientific name Quadrula sparsa, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to western Virginia and eastern Tennessee in the Appalachia region, in the Southeastern United States. It is critically endangered due to pollution of the rivers in which it lives. Being a detritivore, the mussel absorbs the pollutants which contaminate the river as it feeds.
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Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel
The Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel or Appalachian monkeyface, scientific name Quadrula sparsa, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to western Virginia and eastern Tennessee in the Appalachia region, in the Southeastern United States. It is critically endangered due to pollution of the rivers in which it lives. Being a detritivore, the mussel absorbs the pollutants which contaminate the river as it feeds.
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Quadrula sparsa es una especie de molusco bivalvo de la familia Unionidae.
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Quadrula sparsa é uma espécie ...... dos Estados Unidos da América.
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The Appalachian monkey-face pe ...... aminate the river as it feeds.
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稀少方蚌（学名：Quadrula sparsa），又名阿帕拉契山猴面真珠蚌，是美國特有的一種淡水蚌，現正處於極危狀況。
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Quadrula sparsa es una especie de molusco bivalvo de la familia Unionidae.
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Quadrula sparsa é uma espécie ...... dos Estados Unidos da América.
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The Appalachian monkey-face pe ...... aminate the river as it feeds.
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稀少方蚌（学名：Quadrula sparsa），又名阿帕拉契山猴面真珠蚌，是美國特有的一種淡水蚌，現正處於極危狀況。
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Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel
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Quadrula sparsa
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Quadrula sparsa
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稀少方蚌
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Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel
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Quadrula sparsa
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