Pleuronaia dolabelloides

{{Short description|Species of bivalve}}

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| image = Pleuronaia dolabelloides.png

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref={{cite iucn|author1=Bogan, A.|author2=Cummings, K.|name-list-style=amp|year=2012|title=Pleuronaia dolabelloides|page=e.T11922A504863|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T11922A504863.en|access-date=29 May 2024}}

| status2=LE

|status2_system=ESA

|status2_ref={{cite web|url=https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/1518|title=Slabside Pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides)|website=Environmental Conservation Online System|publisher=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service|access-date=29 May 2024}}{{Federal Register|78|59269}}

| genus = Pleuronaia

| species = dolabelloides

| authority = (Lea, 1840)

| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=yes|Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840)|Lexingtonia dolabelloides subsp. dolabelloides (Lea, 1840)|Lexingtonia dolabelloides subsp. conradi (Vanatta, 1915)|Unio maculatus Conrad, 1834|Unio dolabelloides Lea, 1840|Unio thorntonii Lea, 1857|Unio mooresianus Lea, 1857|Unio circumactus Lea, 1871|Unio recurvatus Lea, 1871|Unio subglobatus Lea, 1871|Pleurobema conradi Vanatta, 1915|Unio tornhatonii subsp. duckensis de Gregorio, 1914}}

|synonyms_ref={{ITIS|taxon=Pleuronaia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840)|access-date=29 May 2024|id=906914}}

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Pleuronaia dolabelloides, the slab-sided naiad, slab-sided pearly mussel, or slabside pearlymussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species was formerly classified under the genus Lexingtonia.

This species is endemic to the Tennessee River system in the United States.{{Cite book|title=The freshwater mussels of Tennessee|last1=Parmalee|first1=Paul W.|last2=Bogan|first2=Arthur E.|year=1998|publisher=University of Tennessee Press|isbn=1572330139|oclc=37980671}}{{page needed|date=May 2024}} It is currently found in Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, but has been extirpated from North Carolina and Kentucky.{{Cite web

| publisher =NatureServe

| title = Pleuronaia dolabelloides

| url = https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.106952/Pleuronaia_dolabelloides

| accessdate = 29 May 2024|date=3 May 2024|website=NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer|author=NatureServe|location=Arlington, Virginia}} A Pleuronaia species recorded from Georgia has not been established as representing P. dolabelloides.{{cite report|url=https://ecosphere-documents-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sams/public_docs/species_nonpublish/3386.pdf|title=Slabside Pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation|publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service|year=2021|access-date=29 May 2024}}