Biology:Southern kidneyshell

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Short description: Species of bivalve

Southern kidneyshell

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Ptychobranchus
Species:
P. jonesi
Binomial name
Ptychobranchus jonesi
(van der Schalie, 1934)

The southern kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus jonesi) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

This species is endemic to the United States.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3015058 entry