Pleurobema

Pleurobema
A live individual of Pleurobema gibberum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Pleurobema Rafinesque, 1819

Pleurobema is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Species[]

Species within the genus Pleurobema include:

A close-up of Pleurobema decisum

• Pleurobema altum (Highnut)
• Pleurobema avellanum (Hazel pigtoe)
• Pleurobema beadleianum (Mississippi pigtoe)
• Pleurobema bournianum (Scioto pigtoe)
• Pleurobema chattanoogaense (Painted clubshell)
• Pleurobema clava (Club naiad)
• Pleurobema collina (James River spinymussel)
• Pleurobema cordatum (Ohio pigtoe)
• Pleurobema curtum (Black clubshell)
• Pleurobema decisum (Southern clubshell)
• Pleurobema flavidulum (Yellow pigtoe)
• Pleurobema furvum (Dark pigtoe)
• Pleurobema georgianum (Southern pigtoe)
• Pleurobema gibberum (Cumberland pigtoe)
• Pleurobema hagleri (Brown pigtoe)
• Pleurobema hanleyianum (Georgia pigtoe)
• (Cherokee pigtoe)
• Pleurobema johannis (Alabama pigtoe)
• Pleurobema marshalli (Flat pigtoe)
• Pleurobema nucleopsis (Longnut)
• Pleurobema oviforme (Tennessee clubshell)
• Pleurobema perovatum (Ovate clubshell)
• Pleurobema plenum (Rough pigtoe pearly mussel)
• Pleurobema pyriforme (Oval pigtoe)
• Pleurobema riddellii (Louisiana pigtoe)
• Pleurobema rubrum (Pyramid pigtoe)
• Pleurobema sintoxia (Round pigtoe)
• Pleurobema stabile (Coosa pigtoe)
• Pleurobema strodeanum (Fuzzy pigtoe)
• Pleurobema taitianum (Heavy pigtoe)
• Pleurobema troschelianum (Alabama clubshell)
• Pleurobema verum (True pigtoe)

References[]

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