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全名
Potamilus capax (Green, 1832)
英文俗名
Fat Pocketbook Pearly Mussel, Fat Pocketbook.
外殼特徵
Shell greatly inflated, subsolid, obovate, with an excessivelyfull, high, rounded umbonal region. Left valve with a single,sometimes a partially double, pseudocardinal in front of thebeak, has two small, compressed, distant laterals; right valvewith two compressed, ragged pseudocardinals opposite eachother, the upper extending back to the beak, and a single,high, thin, decidedly truncate lateral. Nacre bluish-white,pinkish or salmon-tinted.
地理分布
Lower Ohio River Drainage; southwest to St. FrancisRiver, Arkansas; north to eastern Iowa; Elkhorn and BlueRivers, USA.
模式產地
Falls of St. Anthony, USA.
原始記錄
Unio capax Green, Cab. Nat. Hist., II, 1832,p.290.
同種異名
Unio capax Green, 1832Symphynota globosa Lea, 1832Margarita (Unio) globosa Lea, 1836Unio globosus Hanley, 1842Margaron (Unio) capax Lea, 1852Lampsilis capax Smith, 1899
備註
The species is listed as endangered species under Taiwan'sWildlife Conservation Law (WCL). This species was listedin the CITES Appendix I on 1st July 1975. Proptera wasalso genus name. Photo-specimen was collected fromPoinsett Co., Arkansas, USA and inventory in UMMZ250556。