Potamilus
Potamilus | |
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Potamilus alatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Genus: | Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818 |
Potamilus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Species[]
Species within the genus Potamilus include:
- Potamilus alatus (pink heelsplitter)
- Potamilus amphichaenus (Texas heelsplitter)
- Potamilus capax (fat pocketbook pearly mussel)
- Potamilus inflatus (inflated heelsplitter)
- Potamilus metnecktayi (Salina mucket)
- Potamilus ohiensis (pink papershell)
- (bleufer)
References[]
Categories:
- Potamilus
- Bivalve genera
- Unionidae stubs