Toxolasma

Toxolasma
Toxolasma cylindrellus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Tribe:	Lampsilini
Genus:	Toxolasma Rafinesque, 1831

Toxolasma is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. ^[1]

Species within the genus Toxolasma

• Toxolasma corvuncvulus (southern purple lilliput)
• Toxolasma cylindrellus (pale lilliput)
• Toxolasma lividus (purple lilliput)
• Toxolasma mearnsi (western lilliput)
• Toxolasma parvus (lilliput)
• Toxolasma paulus (iridescent lilliput)
• Toxolasma pullus (Savannah lilliput) ^[2]
• Toxolasma texasiensis (Texas lilliput)

References

1. Breton, Sophie; Stewart, Donald T.; Shepardson, Sally; Trdan, Richard J.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Chapman, Eric G.; Ruminas, Andrew J.; Piontkivska, Helen; Hoeh, Walter R. (May 2011). "Novel Protein Genes in Animal mtDNA: A New Sex Determination System in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)?". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28 (5): 1645–1659. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq345. ISSN   1537-1719. PMC   3107663 . PMID   21172831.
2. Hanlon, Shane D.; Levine, Jay F. (June 2004). "Notes on the Life History and Demographics of the Savannah Lilliput (Toxolasma pullus) (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in University Lake, NC" . Southeastern Naturalist. 3 (2): 289–296. doi:10.1656/1528-7092(2004)003[0289:NOTLHA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   1528-7092.