Painted clubshell

Painted clubshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Pleurobema
Species: P. chattanoogaense
Binomial name
Pleurobema chattanoogaense
(I. Lea, 1858)

The painted clubshell, scientific name Pleurobema chattanoogaense, 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. Its natural habitat is rivers.

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