Pyganodon

Pyganodon
Shell of Pyganodon fragilis (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
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

• Pyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)
• Pyganodon fragilis (Lamarck, 1819)
• Pyganodon gibbosa (Say, 1824)
• Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)
• Pyganodon lacustris (I. Lea, 1857)

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

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• 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).

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