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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 Sowerby (1869), 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

Sowerby, G.B. 1869. Genus Anodon. Conchologica Iconica 17: pls. 21-24.

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Attributed Species Names

Anodon dunlopiana Sowerby, 1869
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1869, Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 23, sp. 87.
(error for Anodonta dunlapiana Lea, 1842)

Anodon amethystus Sowerby, 1869
Sowerby, 1869, Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 24, sp. 95, fig. 95a-b.
Sowerby, 1870, Conch. Icon. 17: index [as ‘wheatleyi’].

Anodon ovata Sowerby, 1869
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1869, Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 22, sp. 85.
(reference to Anodonta ovata Lea, 1838)

Anodon biangulata Sowerby, 1869
Sowerby, 1869, Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 23, sp. 88, figs. 88a-b.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodon biangulata (Sowerby, 1869)

Anodon buchanensis (Lea, 1838)

Anodon cylindracea (Lea, 1838)

Anodon decora (Lea, 1838)

Anodon dunlopiana [sic] (Lea, 1842)

Anodon exilis (Lea, 1838)

Anodon fluviatilis Lea
+ Anodonta marginata Say, 1817

Anodon hallenbeckii (Lea, 1858)

Anodon harpethensis (Lea, 1840)

Anodon lingulata (Hupé, 1857)

Anodon ovata (Lea, 1838)
+ Anodonta opaca Lea, 1852

Anodon plana (Lea, 1834)

Anodon solidula (Deville & Hupé, 1850)

Anodon wheatleyi (Lea, 1852)
+ Anodon amethystus Sowerby, 1869

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