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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Ligumia Swainson, 1840: species

1 available nominal genus synonym (4 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

syonymy (8 available, 10 total) | specimens (5 + 5 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Widespread in the Interior, Nelson, Great Lakes and eastern Gulf Coastal Plain basins, North America. Introduced to the Atlantic Slope via the Erie Canal. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened A4c
NatureServe: G4
other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia barbouri (White, 1895) (Cretaceous)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia bowlingi (MacNeil, 1935) (Tertiary)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Miocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia consueta (Whiteaves, 1885) (Cretaceous)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, North America.

Ligumia couesi (White, 1877) (Cretaceous Tertiary)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous and Paleocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia farri (Stanton, 1903) (Cretaceous)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia spinnhirni Modell, 1950 (fossil)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia tellinoides (Hall, 1845) (Tertiary)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Eocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Ligumia whitei (Henderson, 1918) (Tertiary)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Eocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

 
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