''Ptychobranchus'' is a
genus of
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...
mussel
Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...
s in the family
Unionidae.
Species of this genus package their
larvae, known as
glochidia, in conglutinates that resemble prey items such as
fish fry. As fish come to investigate these lures there is a better chance the glochidia will contact them, attach, and use them as hosts during development.
[Zanatta, D. T. and R. W. Murphy. (2006)]
Evolution of active host-attraction strategies in the freshwater mussel tribe Lampsilini (Bivalvia: Unionidae).
''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 41(1), 195-208.
Species include:
[''Ptychobranchus''.]
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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Ptychobranchus fasciolaris'' – kidneyshell
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Ptychobranchus foremanianus
''Ptychobranchus'' is a genus of freshwater bivalve, freshwater mussels in the family Unionidae.
Species of this genus package their larvae, known as Glochidium, glochidia, in conglutinates that resemble prey items such as Juvenile fish, fish fr ...
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Ptychobranchus greenii'' – triangular kidneyshell
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Ptychobranchus jonesi
The southern kidneyshell (''Ptychobranchus jonesi'') is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater mol ...
'' – southern kidneyshell
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Ptychobranchus occidentalis
''Ptychobranchus occidentalis'' is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It is endemic to the United States, where it is known from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Its common name ...
'' – Ouachita kidneyshell
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Ptychobranchus subtentum
''Ptychobranchus subtentum'', also known as the fluted kidneyshell, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
This species is endemic to the drainages of the Cumberland River ...
'' – fluted kidneyshell
References
Bivalve genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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