# Ligumia

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Genus of bivalves

Ligumia Ligumia recta Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Unionida Family: Unionidae Tribe: Lampsilini Genus: Ligumia Swainson, 1840 Type species Unio recta Lamarck, 1819 Synonyms Lampsilis (Ligumia) Unio (Ligumia) Swainson, 1840 (original rank)

***Ligumia*** 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

Species within the genus *Liguma* include:

- *[Ligumia recta](/source/Ligumia_recta)* (Lamarck, 1819)

**Species brought into synonymy**

- *Ligumia nasuta*: synonym of *[Sagittunio nasutus](/source/Sagittunio_nasutus)* (Say, 1817)

- *Ligumia subrostrata* (Say, 1831): synonym of *[Sagittunio subrostratus](/source/Sagittunio_subrostratus)* (Say, 1831)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WoRMS_1-0)** 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](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571698) on 2021-05-08

- 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Ligumia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ligumia).

- [Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450)

Taxon identifiers Ligumia Wikidata: Q3013461 BOLD: 5017 CoL: 7P7GH EoL: 57638 GBIF: 2288352 iNaturalist: 89524 IRMNG: 1436897 ITIS: 80194 NCBI: 96929 Open Tree of Life: 2851634 WoRMS: 571698

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