Kentaro Inoue

Lead author; conservation researcher at John G. Shedd Aquarium

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Scientists describe five new freshwater mussel species in southern US rivers

Lead author of the Zootaxa study

Five look-alike freshwater mussels have been hiding in rivers across the US Southeast. A team from the John G. Shedd Aquarium, Arkansas State University, and the US Geological Survey used DNA and shell-shape analysis to split the genus Obovaria into five new species, and to recognize a sixth under a restored genus, Pseudoon.

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