The washboard is one of North America's largest freshwater mussels, with a thick, heavy, rounded shell bearing coarse, wavy ridges across its greenish-brown to black surface. It buries in the sand and gravel beds of large rivers across the central and eastern United States. The shell reaches about 6 inches. It lives partly buried in the riverbed.
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