Pleuronaia
Appearance
Pleuronaia | |
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Pleuronaia dolabelloides | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Tribe: | Pleurobemini |
Genus: | Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927 |
Synonyms | |
Lexingtonia |
Pleuronaia is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. They are native to the United States.
Some members of this genus were formerly included under the now-obsolete name Lexingtonia.[1]
Species
[edit]- Pleuronaia barnesiana
- Pleuronaia dolabelloides ("slab-sided naiad")
- Pleuronaia gibberum
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell, David; Lydeard, Charles (2012). "Molecular Systematics of Fusconaia (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae)". American Malacological Bulletin. 30 (1): 1–17.