Pleuronaia dolabelloides

Pleuronaia dolabelloides, the slab-sided naiad, slab-sided pearly mussel, or slabside pearlymussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species was formerly classified under the genus Lexingtonia.

Pleuronaia dolabelloides
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Endangered (ESA)[2][3]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Pleuronaia
Species:	P. dolabelloides
Binomial name
Pleuronaia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840)
Synonyms[4]
List Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) Lexingtonia dolabelloides subsp. dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) Lexingtonia dolabelloides subsp. conradi (Vanatta, 1915) Unio maculatus Conrad, 1834 Unio dolabelloides Lea, 1840 Unio thorntonii Lea, 1857 Unio mooresianus Lea, 1857 Unio circumactus Lea, 1871 Unio recurvatus Lea, 1871 Unio subglobatus Lea, 1871 Pleurobema conradi Vanatta, 1915 Unio tornhatonii subsp. duckensis de Gregorio, 1914

This species is endemic to the Tennessee River system in the United States.^{[5][page needed]} It is currently found in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, but has been extirpated from North Carolina and Kentucky.^[6] A Pleuronaia species recorded from Georgia has not been established as representing P. dolabelloides.^[7]