''Pseudanodonta'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
freshwater mussels,
aquatic bivalve mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Unionidae
The Unionidae are a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simply as unionids.
The range of distribution for this family is world-wide. It is at its most divers ...
, the river mussels.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1337668 on 2022-02-20]
Species
Species within this genus include:
* ''
Pseudanodonta complanata
The depressed river mussel or compressed river mussel, ''Pseudanodonta complanata'', is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. The species name comes from the flattened shape o ...
''
(Rossmässler, 1835)
* ''Pseudanodonta middendorffi''
(Siemaschko, 1848):
"Pseudanodonta middendorffi"
, ZipcodeZoo synonym of ''Pseudanodonta complanata'' (Rossmässler, 1835)
References
* Servain, G. (1888). Aperçu sur la faune des mollusques fluviatiles des environs de Hambourg. Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France, 5: 287-340, pl. 8-9. Paris
* Lopes-Lima, M. et al. (2017). Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges. Biological Reviews, 92 (1): 572-607. Cambridge
External links
Bourguignat, J.-R. (1877). Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suivies d'une classification des familles et des genres de mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse. 3
Servain, G. (1891). Des Acéphales Lamellibranches fluviatiles du Système Européen. Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France. 7: 281-323, pl. 5-7. Paris
Locard, A. (1890). Catalogue des espèces françaises appartenant aux genres Pseudanodonta et Anodonta connues jusqu'a ce jour. Contributions à la faune malacologique française [XIV
1-240. Paris: Baillière. Published slightly later (1890) in the Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, (N.S.) 36: 50-284]
Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Aksenova, O. V.; Aksenov, A. S.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Borovskoy, A. V.; Danilov, P. P.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kabakov, M. B.; Klishko, O. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Lyubas, A. A.; Novoselov, A. P.; Palatov, D. M.; Savvinov, G. N.; Solomonov, N. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Makhrov, A. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2020). Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia. Scientific Reports. 10(1)
Unionidae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by Jules René Bourguignat
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