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The rivers of Illinois were once rife with the orange-foot pimpleback and the cracking pearlymussel; spike and Wabash riffleshell; tubercled blossom and Higgins eye; winged mapleleaf and round hickorynut; pondhorn, pink papershell, pyramid pigtoe, paper pondshell, and purple lilliput.
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The Green River, also a host to a plethora of dams, is the home of 21 species of imperiled freshwater mussels with names like rough pigtoe, fanshell and ring pink.
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Resident endangered animal species include Indiana bat Myotis sodalis (EN), gray bat M. grisescens (EN), fanshell mussel Cyprogenia stegaria (CR), crackling pearly mussel Hemistema lata (CR), ring pink mussel Obovaria retusa (CR), rough pigtoe mussel Pleurobema plenum (CR), and clubshell mussel P. clava (CR). 45 other mussel species also inhabit the caves.
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Gentle now willow, freshwater drum, ohio pigtoe, don’t add to heartache.
Gentle, Juliana Spahr Lemon Hound 2007
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Gentle now willow, freshwater drum, ohio pigtoe, don’t add to heartache.
Archive 2007-07-01 Lemon Hound 2007
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