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Genus of bivalves

Pyganodon
Shell of Pyganodon fragilis (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Subfamily: Unioninae
Tribe: Anodontini
Genus: Pyganodon
Crosse & Fischer, 1894
Synonyms
  • Anodonta (Flexiplis) Rafinesque, 1831
  • Anodonta (Pyganodon) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1894
  • Flexiplis Rafinesque, 1831
  • Flexiptis Rafinesque, 1831

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

Species within the genus Pyganodon

Synonyms
  • Pyganodon implicata (Say, 1829): synonym of Utterbackiana implicata (Say, 1829)
  • Pyganodon lugubris (Say, 1829): synonym of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)
  • Pyganodon marginata (Say, 1817): synonym of Pyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)
  • Pyganodon simpsonaia (I. Lea, 1861): synonym of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)
  • Pyganodon simpsoniana (I. Lea, 1861): synonym of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyganodon Crosse & P. Fischer, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571699 on 2022-03-13
  • 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).
Taxon identifiers
Pyganodon


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