Southern kidneyshell

Southern kidneyshell
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Ptychobranchus
Species: P. jonesi
Binomial name
Ptychobranchus jonesi
van der Schalie, 1934

The southern kidneyshell, scientific name 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.

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