Ligumia

Ligumia
Ligumia recta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Ligumia Swainson, 1840
Type species
Unio recta Lamarck, 1819
Synonyms
Lampsilis (Ligumia) Unio (Ligumia) Swainson, 1840 (original rank)

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

Species[]

Species within the genus Liguma include:

• Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Species brought into synonymy

• Ligumia nasuta: synonym of Sagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817)
• Ligumia subrostrata (Say, 1831): synonym of Sagittunio subrostratus (Say, 1831)

References[]

• Williams, J. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp
• InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).

External links[]

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp

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