Toxolasma
Appearance
Toxolasma | |
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Toxolasma cylindrellus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Tribe: | Lampsilini |
Genus: | Toxolasma Rafinesque, 1831 |
Toxolasma is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.[1]
Species within the genus Toxolasma
[edit]- Toxolasma corvuncvulus (southern purple lilliput)
- Toxolasma cylindrellus (pale lilliput)
- Toxolasma lividus (purple lilliput)
- Toxolasma mearnsi (western lilliput)
- Toxolasma parvus (lilliput)
- Toxolasma paulus (iridescent lilliput)
- Toxolasma pullus (Savannah lilliput)[2]
- Toxolasma texasiensis (Texas lilliput)
References
[edit]- ^ Breton, Sophie; Stewart, Donald T.; Shepardson, Sally; Trdan, Richard J.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Chapman, Eric G.; Ruminas, Andrew J.; Piontkivska, Helen; Hoeh, Walter R. (May 2011). "Novel Protein Genes in Animal mtDNA: A New Sex Determination System in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)?". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28 (5): 1645–1659. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq345. ISSN 1537-1719. PMC 3107663. PMID 21172831.
- ^ Hanlon, Shane D.; Levine, Jay F. (June 2004). "Notes on the Life History and Demographics of the Savannah Lilliput (Toxolasma pullus) (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in University Lake, NC". Southeastern Naturalist. 3 (2): 289–296. doi:10.1656/1528-7092(2004)003[0289:NOTLHA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1528-7092.