The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

For each taxon, information is provided regarding habitat, horizon (Recent unless otherwise listed), and diversity. We are actively working on the Recent freshwater mussels, and those are the taxa for which the data are most complete. For other Recent freshwater bivalves, the information largely follows Graf (2013). For other taxa (e.g., marine, fossil), any content is largely incidental.

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Bivalvia

order Veneroida

superfamily Cyrenoidea: 2 families, 137 Recent species. Distribution: Afrotropics, Australasia, Central America, East Asia, North America, North Eurasia, South America.

family Donacidae: 4 genera, 16 Recent species. Distribution: Afrotropics, Central America, North America, South America.

family Lucinidae: not freshwater, 2 genera, 16 Recent species.

family Pharidae: 3 subfamilies, 13 Recent species. Distribution: East Asia.

family Cyrenoididae: not freshwater, 2 genera, 6 Recent species. Distribution: Afrotropics, Central America, North America.

superfamily Mactroidea: 1 family, 4 Recent species. Distribution: East Asia.

family Solenidae: not freshwater, 2 genera, 2 Recent species. Distribution: East Asia.

family Veneridae: not freshwater, 1 genus, 2 Recent species. Distribution: Afrotropics.

family Ferganoconchidae: fossil only, 2 genera.

family Pseudocardiniidae: fossil only, 4 genera.

superfamily Anthracosioidea: fossil only, 3 families.

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