{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Ligumia recta.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Ligumia recta]]'' | image2 = Ligumia.ogv | taxon = Ligumia | authority = Swainson, 1840 |synonyms= * ''Lampsilis (Ligumia)'' * ''Unio (Ligumia)'' <small>Swainson, 1840</small> (original rank) |type_species= ''Unio recta'' <small>Lamarck, 1819</small> }}
'''''Ligumia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[freshwater mussel]]s, [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]] [[bivalve]] [[mollusk]]s in the family [[Unionidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ligumia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571698 on 2021-05-08</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Liguma'' include: * ''[[Ligumia recta]]'' <small>(Lamarck, 1819)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Ligumia nasuta'': synonym of ''[[Sagittunio nasutus]]'' <small>(Say, 1817)</small> * ''Ligumia subrostrata'' <small>(Say, 1831)</small>: synonym of ''[[Sagittunio subrostratus]]'' <small>(Say, 1831)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Williams, J. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp * InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450 Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp]
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[[Category:Ligumia| ]] [[Category:Bivalve genera]] [[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]
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