Potamilus

Potamilus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.^[1]

Potamilus
Potamilus alatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Tribe:	Lampsilini
Genus:	Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818
Synonyms
List Anodonta (Lastena) Rafinesque, 1820 Lampsilis (Leptodea) Rafinesque, 1820 Lampsilis (Proptera) Rafinesque, 1819 Lasmonos Rafinesque, 1831 Lastena Rafinesque, 1820 Leptodea Rafinesque, 1820 Limnadea Agassiz, 1846 Lymnadea [lapsus] Lymnadia G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 Metaptera Rafinesque, 1820 Monelagmus Agassiz, 1846 Monelasmus Agassiz, 1846 Naidea Swainson, 1840 Paraptera Ortmann, 1911 Pareptera Ortmann, 1911 Potamilus (Lastena) Rafinesque, 1820 Proptera Rafinesque, 1819 Stenelasma Herrmannsen, 1849 Symphynota I. Lea, 1829 Symphynota (Symphynota) I. Lea, 1829 Unio (Leptodea) Rafinesque, 1820 Unio (Metaptera) Rafinesque, 1820 Unio (Symphynota) I. Lea, 1829

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)
• Potamilus purpuratus (bleufer)