Purple bean

A purple mussel with tan algae and a small opening filtering food out of the water

Photo By/Credit

Tim Lane

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0

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Purple Bean, Beech Creek, TN.

Species

Villosa perpurpurea

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