{{Short description|Genus of molluscs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Elliptio steinstansana.jpg | image_caption = [[Tar River spinymussel]] (''Parvaspina steinstansana'') | taxon = Parvaspina | authority = Perkins, Johnson & Gangloff, 2017 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''[[James River spinymussel|P. collina]]'' * ''[[Tar River spinymussel|P. steinstansana]]'' }}
'''''Parvaspina''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Freshwater mussel|freshwater mussels]], [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]] [[bivalve]] [[Mollusk|mollusks]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Unionidae]]. It contains only two [[Critically Endangered|critically endangered]] species, both endemic to river basins in a small region of the [[southeastern United States]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=MUSSELpdb {{!}} valid gen. Parvaspina species |url=https://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/fmuotwaolcb/validgen_1625.html |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=mussel-project.uwsp.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Molluscabase - Parvaspina Perkins, N. A. Johnson & Gangloff, 2017 |url=https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1033377 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=www.molluscabase.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Species ==
* ''[[Parvaspina collina]]'' (James River spinymussel) * ''[[Parvaspina steinstansana]]'' (Tar River spinymussel) Both species in this genus were formerly placed in other genera (''[[Elliptio]]'' for ''steinstansana'', ''[[Pleurobema]]'' for ''collina'') before both being placed in the new genus ''Parvaspina'' in 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Perkins |first1=Michael A. |last2=Johnson |first2=Nathan A. |last3=Gangloff |first3=Michael M. |date=2017-08-01 |title=Molecular systematics of the critically-endangered North American spinymussels (Unionidae: Elliptio and Pleurobema) and description of Parvaspina gen. nov. |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-017-0924-z |journal=Conservation Genetics |language=en |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=745–757 |doi=10.1007/s10592-017-0924-z |bibcode=2017ConG...18..745P |issn=1572-9737|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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