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Toxolasma  Rafinesque, 1831
Taxonomic Serial No.: 80358

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Carunculina Simpson in F. C. Baker, 1898
  
    Toxelasma Agassiz, 1846
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2023   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassAutobranchia   
                      InfraclassHeteroconchia   
                         OrderUnionida   
                            SuperfamilyUnionoidea Rafinesque, 1820  
                               FamilyUnionidae Rafinesque, 1820  
                                  SubfamilyAmbleminae Rafinesque, 1820  
                                     TribeLampsilini Ihering, 1901  
                                        GenusToxolasma Rafinesque, 1831  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Toxolasma corvunculus (Lea, 1868) – southern purple lilliput 
                                           Species Toxolasma cylindrellus (Lea, 1868) – pale lilliput, pale lilliput pearly mussel 
                                           Species Toxolasma lividum Rafinesque, 1831 – purple lilliput 
                                           Species Toxolasma parvum (Barnes, 1823) – lilliput 
                                           Species Toxolasma paulum (Lea, 1840) – iridescent lilliput 
                                           Species Toxolasma pullus (Conrad, 1838) – Savannah lilliput 
                                           Species Toxolasma texasiense (Lea, 1857) – Texas lilliput 
       

 References
       
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  Source: MUSSEL Project Web Site, website (version 08Aug2013)  
  Acquired: 2013   
  Notes: Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2013. The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves), updated 8 August 2013. MUSSEL Project Web Site, http://www.mussel-project.net   
  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Source: MUSSEL Project Web Site (2023), website (version 15Nov2023)  
  Acquired: 2023   
  Notes: Graf, D. L. & K. S. Cummings. 2023. The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves), accessed 15 Nov 2023. MUSSEL Project Web Site, http://www.mussel-project.net   
  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings  
  Publication Date: 2021   
  Article/Chapter Title: A 'big data' approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 87, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-36   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1464-3766   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyaa034   
  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lee, Harry G.  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title: Musings on a local specimen of Toxolasma paulum (I. Lea, 1840), the iridescent lilliput   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Shell-O-Gram, vol. 47, no. 5   
  Page(s): 3-6   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2472-2774   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.jaxshells.org/jsc.html   
  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Rafinesque, C. S. / Binney, Wm. G., and George W. Tryon, Jr., eds  
  Publication Date: 1864   
  Article/Chapter Title: Continuation of a monograph of the bivalve shells of the River Ontario, and other rivers of the western states   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Complete Writings of Constantine Smaltz Rafinesque on Recent & Fossil Conchology   
  Page(s): 69-87   
  Publisher: Bailliere Brothers   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
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  Notes: A reprinting of Rafinesque's rare 1831 work is available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8422724   
  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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  Reference for: Toxolasma   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Lee (2006) argues that the name Toxolasma should be treated as neuter gender. Some adjectival epithets were corrected in gender, accordingly. See also Williams et al. (2008:711)  
 

 

    

 
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