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)
• 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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