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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 Graf (2000), 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

Graf, D.L. 2000. The Etherioidea revisited: a phylogenetic analysis of hyriid relationships (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Paleoheterodonta: Unionoida). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (729): 1-21.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 1

Taxonomic Opinions

Acostaea rivoli (Deshayes, 1827)

Anodontites crispata (Brug., 1792)

Anodontites trapesialis (Lam., 1819)

Castalina martensi von Ihering, 1891

Castalina undosa (von Martens, 1885)

Diplodon ellipticum (Spix, 1827)

Diplodon fontainianus (d’Orbigny, 1835)

Diplodon paranensis (Lea, 1834)

Elliptio crassidens (Lam., 1819)

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Etheria elliptica (Lam., 1807)

Grandidieria burtoni (Woodward, 1859)

Hyridella australis (Lam., 1819)

Hyridella depressa (Lam., 1819)

Iridina exotica Lam., 1819

Iridina ovatus Swainson, 1823

Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)
+ Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linn., 1758)

Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1793)

Mutela nilotica (Cailliaud, 1823)

Mycetopoda siliquosa (Spix, 1827)

Mycetopoda soleniformis d’Orbigny, 1835

Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lam., 1804)

Parreysia corrugata (Müller, 1774)

Pyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Unio caffer Krauss, 1848

Unio pictorum (Linn., 1758)

Velesunio ambigua (Philippi, 1847)

Cladogram Figure 1
  +-------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
  |                                                   
  |  +----------------------- Margaritifera           
--+  |                                                
  |  |              +-------- Unio                    
  |  |  +-----------+                                 
  +--+  |           |  +----- Elliptio                
     |  |           +--+                              
     |  |              |  +-- Pyganodon               
     |  |              +--+                           
     +--+                 +-- Lampsilis               
        |                                             
        |  +----------------- Parreysia               
        |  |                                          
        |  |  +-------------- Grandidieria            
        +--+  |                                       
           |  |     +-------- Castalia                
           |  |  +--+                                 
           +--+  |  |  +----- Diplodon                
              |  |  +--+                              
              |  |     |  +-- Hyridella               
              |  |     +--+                           
              +--+        +-- Velesunio               
                 |                                    
                 |        +-- Mutela__1               
                 |  +-----+                           
                 |  |     +-- Mutela__2               
                 +--+                                 
                    |  +----- Anodontites             
                    |  |                              
                    +--+----- Mycetopoda              
                       |                              
                       |  +-- Etheria                 
                       +--+                           
                          +-- Mulleria                

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