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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!

This page documents data for Araujo et al. (2009), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Araujo, R., C. Toledo, D. Van Damme, M. Ghamizi & A. Machordom. 2009. Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918): a valid species inhabiting Moroccan rivers. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75(2): 95-101.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 3

Attributed Species Names

Margaritifera laevis Huff et al., 2004
‘Haas’ of Authors.
Huff et al., 2004, J. Moll. Studies 70: 381.
Walker et al., 2006, Malacologia 48(1-2): 271.
Araujo et al., 2009, J. Moll. Studies 75(2): 97. [in part]
Takeuchi et al., 2015, Mollusc. Res. 35(4): 220. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Ptychorhynchus laevis Haas, 1910)

Taxonomic Opinions

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)

Margaritifera laosensis (Lea, 1863)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918)
+ Margaritana redomica Pallary, 1923
+ Margaritana dernaica Pallary, 1928

Margaritifera marrianae Johnson, 1983

Cladogram Figure 3
  +-------------- Unio                       
  |                                          
--+  +----------- Cumberlandia_monodonta     
  |  |                                       
  |  |        +-- Pseudunio_marocanus        
  +--+  +-----+                              
     |  |     +-- Pseudunio_auricularius     
     |  |                                    
     +--+     +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
        |  +--+                              
        |  |  +-- Margaritifera_dahurica     
        +--+                                 
           |  +-- Margaritifera_falcata      
           +--+                              
              +-- Margaritifera_middendorffi 

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