Ligumia

Genus of bivalves

Ligumia

Ligumia recta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Unionida
Family:  | Unionidae
Tribe:  | Lampsilini
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

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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

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1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ligumia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571698 on 2021-05-08

* 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

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ligumia.

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

Taxon identifiers

Ligumia|

* Wikidata: Q3013461
* BOLD: 5017
* CoL: 7P7GH
* EoL: 57638
* GBIF: 2288352
* iNaturalist: 89524
* IRMNG: 1436897
* ITIS: 80194
* NCBI: 96929
* Open Tree of Life: 2851634
* WoRMS: 571698

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