Toxolasma

Toxolasma is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.[1]

Toxolasma
Toxolasma cylindrellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Lampsilini
Genus: Toxolasma
Rafinesque, 1831

Species within the genus Toxolasma

  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.


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