Table 10. Mussel species collected from streams in the Salt River basin, 1977-1986 (Missouri Department of Conservation, S. Bruenderman, personal communication).
Species Species
Paper floater Flat floater
Giant floater Cylindrical papershell
Squawfoot Rock pocketbook
White heelsplitter Fluted shell
Washboard Pistolgrip
Mapleleaf Wartyback
Pimpleback Rabbit's foot
Monkeyface Wabash pigtoe
Purple pimpleback Round pigtoe
Ladyfinger Pondhorn
Threehorn wartyback Mucket
Ellipse Butterfly
Fawnsfoot Deertoe
Fragile papershell Pink heelsplitter
Purpleshell Pink papershell
Liliput shell Black sandshell
Pondmussel Yellow sandshell
Pink mucket Pocketbook
Britt's mussel Eastern lampmussel

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