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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Extinct species of bivalve}}<br />
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| name = Forkshell<br />
| image = <br />
| status = EX<br />
| status_system = IUCN2.3<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Bogan, A.E. |collaboration=Mollusc Specialist Group |date=2000 |title=''Epioblasma lewisii'' |volume=2000 |page=e.T7892A12862418 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T7892A12862418.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref><br />
| genus = Epioblasma<br />
| species = lewisii<br />
| authority = ([[Edmund Murton Walker|Walker]], 1910)<br />
| synonyms = ''Dysnomia lewisii'' Walker, 1910<br />
}}<br />
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The '''forkshell''' or '''Lewis pearly mussel''', [[scientific name]] '''''Epioblasma lewisii''''', was a [[species]] of [[freshwater mussel]], an [[aquatic animal|aquatic]] [[bivalve]] [[mollusk]] in the family [[Unionidae]], the river mussels.<br />
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This species was [[Endemism|endemic]] to the drainages of the [[Cumberland River]] and the [[Tennessee River]] in the [[United States]], with one specimen reported from the [[Ohio River]] near [[Cincinnati]], Ohio.<ref name=ns>{{cite web|url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.117697/Epioblasma_lewisii|website=NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer|title=''Epioblasma lewisii''|author=NatureServe|publisher=NatureServe|location=Arlington, Virginia|date=7 April 2023|access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref> Its natural [[habitat]] was shallow riffle-beds of large rivers.<ref name=ns/> This habitat was largely destroyed by dam construction and [[River engineering#Canalization of rivers|canalization]], and the last populations of this species died sometime during the middle of the 20th century. Only a single museum specimen was collected that preserved the internal soft tissues.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}<br />
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It appears to be closely related to ''[[Epioblasma flexuosa]]'', which is also now extinct.<br />
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