# Cyprogenia

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Genus of bivalves

Cyprogenia Cyprogenia stegaria Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Unionida Family: Unionidae Tribe: Lampsilini Genus: Cyprogenia Agassiz, 1852

***Cyprogenia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [freshwater mussels](/source/Freshwater_mussel), [aquatic](/source/Aquatic_animal) [bivalve](/source/Bivalve) [mollusks](/source/Mollusk) in the family [Unionidae](/source/Unionidae).

## Species within the genus *Cyprogenia*

- *[Cyprogenia aberti](/source/Cyprogenia_aberti)* (edible naiad)

- *[Cyprogenia stegaria](/source/Cyprogenia_stegaria)* (fanshell)

Unionids are one of the most endangered fauna in the world due to water quality degradation and other human activities. Unionid reproductive strategies involve a parasitic life stage on a host fish and, in most species, involve lures that mimic prey to attract the host fish or amphibian, and the [glochidia](/source/Glochidia) latch onto the host's gills for nutrients. The main types of natural fish lures: dispensing lures, trapping lures, conglutinate lures and mantle lures.[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Chong, JP; Harris, JL; Roe, KJ (March 11, 2016). ["Incongruence between mtDNA and nuclear data in the freshwater mussel genus Cyprogenia (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and its impact on species delineation"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788976). *Ecol Evol*. **6** (8): 2439–52. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2016EcoEv...6.2439C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EcoEv...6.2439C). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1002/ece3.2071](https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fece3.2071). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [4788976](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788976). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [27066233](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27066233).

Taxon identifiers Cyprogenia Wikidata: Q3013130 Wikispecies: Cyprogenia BOLD: 80597 CoL: 7NV8N EoL: 52682 Fauna Europaea: 188108 GBIF: 2288281 iNaturalist: 87812 IRMNG: 1359899 ITIS: 80272 NCBI: 228079 WoRMS: 856827

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