Southern pigtoe

Southern pigtoe
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. georgianum
Binomial name
Pleurobema georgianum
I. Lea, 1841

The southern pigtoe, common name Pleurobema georgianum, 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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