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Southern kidneyshell
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

  1. Cordeiro, J.; Cummings, K.; Bogan, A. (2012). "Ptychobranchus jonesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T18826A1855999. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T18826A1855999.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Ptychobranchus jonesi


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