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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.

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  • 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.
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  • Appalachian monkey-face pearly mussel
  • Quadrula sparsa
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