# Pyganodon

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Genus of bivalves

Pyganodon Shell of Pyganodon fragilis (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Unionida Family: Unionidae Subfamily: Unioninae Tribe: Anodontini Genus: Pyganodon Crosse & Fischer, 1894 Synonyms Anodonta (Flexiplis) Rafinesque, 1831 Anodonta (Pyganodon) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1894 Flexiplis Rafinesque, 1831 Flexiptis Rafinesque, 1831

***Pyganodon*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [freshwater mussels](/source/Freshwater_mussel), [aquatic](/source/Aquatic_animal) [bivalve](/source/Bivalve) [mollusks](/source/Mollusk) in the subfamily [Unioninae](/source/Unioninae) of the family [Unionidae](/source/Unionidae), the river mussels.[1]

## Species within the genus *Pyganodon*

- *[Pyganodon cataracta](/source/Pyganodon_cataracta)* (Say, 1817)

- *[Pyganodon fragilis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pyganodon_fragilis&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Lamarck, 1819)

- *[Pyganodon gibbosa](/source/Pyganodon_gibbosa)* (Say, 1824)

- *[Pyganodon grandis](/source/Pyganodon_grandis)* (Say, 1829)

- *[Pyganodon lacustris](/source/Pyganodon_lacustris)* (I. Lea, 1857)

**Synonyms**

- *Pyganodon implicata* (Say, 1829): synonym of *[Utterbackiana implicata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utterbackiana_implicata&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Say, 1829)

- *Pyganodon lugubris* (Say, 1829): synonym of *Pyganodon grandis* (Say, 1829)

- *Pyganodon marginata* (Say, 1817): synonym of *Pyganodon cataracta* (Say, 1817)

- *Pyganodon simpsonaia* (I. Lea, 1861): synonym of *Pyganodon grandis* (Say, 1829)

- *Pyganodon simpsoniana* (I. Lea, 1861): synonym of *Pyganodon grandis* (Say, 1829)

## References

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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WoRMS_1-0)** MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyganodon Crosse & P. Fischer, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: [https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571699](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571699) on 2022-03-13

- 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).

Taxon identifiers Pyganodon Wikidata: Q3016306 BOLD: 5165 CoL: 7PFCF EoL: 51328 GBIF: 2287950 iNaturalist: 91597 IRMNG: 1385147 ITIS: 567112 NCBI: 96931 WoRMS: 571699

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