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Wed 06 Mar 2024

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 | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae

tribe UNIONINI Rafinesque, 1820
     7 nominal tribes as synonyms | cladomics

genus Unio Philipsson in Retzius, 1788: 25 Recent species.
113 generic synonyms | 41 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: Afrotropics, East Asia, North Eurasia.

genus Nodularia Conrad, 1853: 10 Recent species.
5 generic synonyms | 11 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Aculamprotula Wu, Liang, Wang & Ouyang, 1999: 9 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 9 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Cuneopsis Simpson, 1900: 5 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 8 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Pseudocuneopsis Huang, Dai, Chen & Wu et al., 2022: 5 Recent species.
1 generic synonym | 5 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Inversiunio Habe, 1991: 4 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 4 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Pseudobaphia Simpson, 1900: 3 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 4 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Diaurora Cockerell, 1903: 2 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 2 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Rhombuniopsis Haas, 1920: 2 Recent species.
1 generic synonym | 2 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900: 2 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 3 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973: 1 Recent species.
5 generic synonyms | 1 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Protunio Haas, 1912: 1 Recent species.
1 generic synonym | 1 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

genus Tchangsinaia Starobogatov, 1970: 1 Recent species.
2 generic synonyms | 1 valid species | cladomics
Distribution: East Asia.

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