NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Genus

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: TWG standards met
Global Species Completeness: complete
Latest Record Review: 2014

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Tribe - Pleurobemini
  Subfamily - Ambleminae
  Family - Unionidae
  Superfamily - Unionoidea
  Order - Unionoida
  Subclass - Palaeoheterodonta
  Class - Bivalvia
  Phylum - Mollusca
  Superphylum - Lophozoa
  Infrakingdom - Protostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Species - Nephronaias tabascoensis
      Species - Nephronaias tempisquensis
      Species - Nephronaias sphenorhyncha
      Species - Nephronaias scamnata
      Species - Nephronaias sajensis
      Species - Nephronaias rugulosa
      Species - Nephronaias rowellii
      Species - Nephronaias ravistella
      Species - Nephronaias oregonensis
      Species - Nephronaias mellea
      Species - Nephronaias macnielii
      Species - Nephronaias lempensis
      Species - Nephronaias hjalmarsoni
      Species - Nephronaias yzabalensis
      Species - Nephronaias goascoranensis
      Species - Nephronaias hermanni
      Species - Nephronaias dysonii
      Species - Nephronaias copanensis
      Species - Nephronaias championi
      Species - Nephronaias calamitarum
      Species - Nephronaias aztecorum
      Species - Nephronaias aeruginosa
      Species - Nephronaias plicatula
      Species - Nephronaias gundlachi