Toxolasma
Encyclopedia
Toxolasma is a genus
of freshwater mussels, aquatic
bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae
, the river mussels.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater mussels, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae
Unionidae
Unionidae is a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionoida, the bivalve mollusks sometimes known as river mussels, naiads, or simply as unionids.The range of distribution for this family is world-wide...
, the river mussels.
Species within the genus Toxolasma
- southern purple lilliput (Toxolasma corvuncvulus)
- pale lilliput (Toxolasma cylindrellus)
- purple lilliput (Toxolasma lividus)
- western lilliput (Toxolasma mearnsi)
- lilliputLilliputLilliput has several meanings:* Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels* The genus of jumping spiders of this name was renamed to Tanzania in 2008...
(Toxolasma parvus) - iridescent lilliput (Toxolasma paulus)
- Savannah lilliput (Toxolasma pullus)
- Texas lilliput (Toxolasma texasiensis)