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genus Ligumia Swainson, 1840: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (9 total species)

Synonymy

Legumia Agassiz, 1852

‘Swainson’ of Authors.
Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 45.
Mørch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 46.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 490.
Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 143.
(error for Ligumia Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio recta Lamarck, 1819 = Ligumia recta

Ligumia Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 267, 271, 273-274, 289-290, 378.
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 268 [as ‘Ligumea’].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio recta Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Ligumia recta

Ligumea Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 268.
(error for Ligumia Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio recta Lamarck, 1819 = Ligumia recta

Ligumina Philippi, 1853

Philippi, 1853. Handb. Conch. Mal.: 465.
(error for Ligumia Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio recta Lamarck, 1819 = Ligumia recta

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Ligumia, since 1900.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Lampsilis — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Vanatta (1915), Russell (1934), MacNeil (1935), R.I. Johnson (1969)
Eurynia (s.s.) — Ortmann (1912), Utterback (1916), Ortmann (1918)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935), Yen (1951)
Ligumia — Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Modell (1957), Murray & Leonard (1962), ... Hnytka et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ligumia (s.s.) — F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Ptychobranchus — Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Watters et al. (2009)