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Wed 04 Dec 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!

This page documents data for Gustafson & Iwamoto (2005), 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

Gustafson, R.G. & E.M. Iwamoto. 2005. A DNA-based identification key to Pacific Northwest freshwater mussel glochidia: importance to salmonid and mussel conservation. Northwest Science 79(4): 233-245.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 2

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta beringiana Middendorff, 1851

Anodonta californiensis Lea, 1852

Anodonta kennerlyi Lea, 1860

Anodonta nuttalliana Lea, 1838

Anodonta oregonensis Lea, 1838

Anodonta wahlamatensis Lea, 1838

Gonidea angulata (Lea, 1838)

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Cladogram Figure 2
  +----------- Margaritifera_falcata
--+                                 
  |  +-------- Gonidea_angulata     
  +--+                              
     |  +----- Beringiana_beringiana
     +--+                           
        |  +-- Anodonta_oregonensis 
        +--+                        
           +-- Anodonta_nuttalliana 

Page updated: 11:17:27 Wed 04 Dec 2024

 
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