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Margaritiferidae

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Geography

Central America

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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina

genus Ligodonta Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Ligodonta Perkins et al., 2025

Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: 252.
Type species: Ligodonta obscura Perkins et al., 2025 (orig. desig.) = Ligodonta obscura

Microdonta Perkins et al., 2025

Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: supplemental figures. [nomen nudum]
(intro'd as syn. of Ligodonta Perkins et al., 2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Ligodonta — Perkins et al. (2025)

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