Cyprogenia is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae.

Cyprogenia
Cyprogenia stegaria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Lampsilini
Genus: Cyprogenia
Agassiz, 1852

Species within the genus Cyprogenia

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Unionids are one of the most endangered fauna in the world due to water quality degradation and other human activities. Unionid reproductive strategies involve a parasitic life stage on a host fish and, in most species, involve lures that mimic prey to attract the host fish or amphibian, and the glochidia latch onto the host's gills for nutrients. The main types of natural fish lures: dispensing lures, trapping lures, conglutinate lures and mantle lures.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Chong, JP; Harris, JL; Roe, KJ (March 11, 2016). "Incongruence between mtDNA and nuclear data in the freshwater mussel genus Cyprogenia (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and its impact on species delineation". Ecol Evol. 6: 2439–52. doi:10.1002/ece3.2071. PMC 4788976. PMID 27066233.