Alabama heelsplitter

Alabama heelsplitter

Taxobox
name = Alabama heelsplitter


status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Potamilus"
species = "P. inflatus"
binomial = "Potamilus inflatus"
binomial_authority = I. Lea, 1831
synonyms =

The Alabama heelsplitter ("Potamilus inflatus") 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. It is an endangered species.

ource

* Bogan, A.E. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/18092/all Potamilus inflatus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.


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