# Lasmigona

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Genus of bivalves

Lasmigona Lasmigona decorata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Unionida Family: Unionidae Tribe: Anodontini Genus: Lasmigona Rafinesque, 1831

***Lasmigona*** 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).[1]

## Species within the genus *Lasmigona*

*[Lasmigona costata](/source/Lasmigona_costata)*

- *[Lasmigona alabamensis](/source/Lasmigona_alabamensis)* (Alabama heelsplitter)

- *[Lasmigona complanata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lasmigona_complanata&action=edit&redlink=1)* (white heelsplitter): Found in the Midwest United States in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan.[2]

- *[Lasmigona compressa](/source/Lasmigona_compressa)* (creek heelsplitter)

- *[Lasmigona costata](/source/Lasmigona_costata)* (flutedshell)

- *[Lasmigona decorata](/source/Lasmigona_decorata)* (Carolina heelsplitter)

- *[Lasmigona etowaensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lasmigona_etowaensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Etowah heelsplitter)

- *[Lasmigona holstonia](/source/Lasmigona_holstonia)* (Tennessee heelsplitter)

- *[Lasmigona subviridis](/source/Lasmigona_subviridis)* (green floater)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["MUSSELpdb | valid gen. Lasmigona species"](http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/fmuotwaolcb/validgen_288.html). *mussel-project.uwsp.edu*. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Archived copy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160630085749/http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/keystonature/mussels/white_heelsplitter.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/keystonature/mussels/white_heelsplitter.pdf) (PDF) on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-06-18.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title))

Taxon identifiers Lasmigona Wikidata: Q3017496 BOLD: 5093 CoL: 7P6Z6 EoL: 57626 GBIF: 2288260 iNaturalist: 89354 IRMNG: 1239882 ITIS: 80134 NCBI: 52388 Open Tree of Life: 241667 WoRMS: 571696

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