Pleurobema

Pleurobema
A live individual of Pleurobema gibberum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionoida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Pleurobema

Pleurobema is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Species

Species within the genus Pleurobema include:

A close-up of Pleurobema decisum

• highnut (Pleurobema altum)
• hazel pigtoe (Pleurobema avellanum)
• Mississippi Pigtoe (Pleurobema beadleianum)
• Scioto pigtoe (Pleurobema bournianum)
• painted clubshell (Pleurobema chattanoogaense)
• club naiad (Pleurobema clava)
• James River spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
• Ohio Pigtoe (Pleurobema cordatum)
• black clubshell (Pleurobema curtum)
• southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum)
• yellow pigtoe (Pleurobema flavidulum)
• dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum)
• southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum)
• Cumberland pigtoe (Pleurobema gibberum)
• brown pigtoe (Pleurobema hagleri)
• Georgia pigtoe (Pleurobema hanleyianum)
• Cherokee pigtoe (Pleurobema hartmanianum)
• Alabama pigtoe (Pleurobema johannis)
• flat pigtoe (Pleurobema marshalli)
• Coosa pigtoe (Pleurobema murrayense)
• longnut (Pleurobema nucleopsis)
• Tennessee clubshell (Pleurobema oviforme)
• ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum)
• rough pigtoe pearly mussel (Pleurobema plenum)
• oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme)
• Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddellii)
• warrior pigtoe (Pleurobema rubellum)
• pyramid pigtoe (Pleurobema rubrum)
• Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia)
• Coosa Pigtoe (Pleurobema stabilis)
• fuzzy pigtoe (Pleurobema strodeanum)
• heavy pigtoe (Pleurobema taitianum)
• Alabama clubshell (Pleurobema troschelianum)
• true pigtoe (Pleurobema verum)

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