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This Fragile Papershell Mussel (Leptodea fragilis) is doing what mussels do best: filtering sediment out of the river to feed themselves, which simultaneously cleans the water. This mussel was in the Marais des Cygnes River in October, 2011.

Photo credit: Tim Menard / USFWS
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by USFWS Mountain Prairie at https://flickr.com/photos/51986662@N05/6473808265. It was reviewed on 13 April 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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