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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 & A. Machordom. 2009. Redescription of Unio gibbus Spengler, 1793, a west Palaearctic freshwater mussel with hookless glochidia. Malacologia 51(1): 131-141.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 7A
fig. 7B
fig. 7C

Taxonomic Opinions

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)

Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798)

Unio caffer Krauss, 1848

Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788

Unio douglasiae Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833

Unio gibbus Spengler, 1793
+ Unio turdetanus Drouët, 1893
+ Unio tiflecticus Pallary, 1923

Unio mancus Lamarck, 1819

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio tumidiformis

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Cladogram Figure 7A
  +-------------------- Pseudunio_auricularius
  |                                           
--+  +----------------- Amblema_plicata       
  |  |                                        
  +--+  +-------------- Potomida_littoralis   
     |  |                                     
     +--+  +----------- Nodularia_douglasiae  
        |  |                                  
        |  |        +-- Unio_gibbus           
        +--+        |                         
           |  +-----+-- Unio_tumidus          
           |  |     |                         
           |  |     +-- Anodonta_cygnea       
           +--+                               
              |  +----- Unio_pictorum__1      
              |  |                            
              |  +----- Unio_pictorum__2      
              +--+                            
                 +----- Unio_mancus           
                 |                            
                 |  +-- Unio_tumidiformis     
                 +--+                         
                    +-- Unio_crassus          
Cladogram Figure 7B
  +-------------------------- Pseudunio_auricularius
  |                                                 
--+  +----------------------- Potomida_littoralis   
  |  |                                              
  +--+  +-------------------- Amblema_plicata       
     |  |                                           
     +--+  +----------------- Anodonta_cygnea       
        |  |                                        
        +--+  +-------------- Unio_gibbus           
           |  |                                     
           +--+  +----------- Unio_tumidus          
              |  |                                  
              |  |        +-- Unio_tumidiformis     
              +--+  +-----+                         
                 |  |     +-- Unio_crassus          
                 |  |                               
                 +--+     +-- Unio_pictorum__1      
                    |  +--+                         
                    |  |  +-- Unio_mancus           
                    +--+                            
                       |  +-- Unio_pictorum__2      
                       +--+                         
                          +-- Unio_caffer           
Cladogram Figure 7C
  +-------------------- Pseudunio_auricularius
  |                                           
--+  +----------------- Potomida_littoralis   
  |  |                                        
  +--+  +-------------- Amblema_plicata       
     |  |                                     
     +--+  +----------- Anodonta_cygnea       
        |  |                                  
        |  |        +-- Unio_gibbus           
        +--+  +-----+                         
           |  |     +-- Unio_tumidus          
           |  |                               
           +--+     +-- Unio_tumidiformis     
              |  +--+                         
              |  |  +-- Unio_crassus          
              +--+                            
                 |  +-- Unio_pictorum__1      
                 |  |                         
                 +--+-- Unio_pictorum__2      
                    |                         
                    +-- Unio_mancus           

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