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1 June 2010 |
Mussel of the Month
The June 2010 Mussel of the Month is Arcidopsis footei. Arcidopsis is a monotypic genus endemic to the West Ghats of India.
BMNH 88-12-4-1651 Kistna River near the "Gutparba Falls", India (type)
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We have very little to say about Arcidopsis footei. A GoogleScolar search returns only our global checklist (Graf & Cummings, 2007). All that most have done before us is notice that this mussel exists, so we are going to leave it at that, too. There have been a couple recent works on Indian mussels that show some pictures (Subba Rao, 1989; Ramakrishna & Dey, 2007). |
Classification:
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Order Unionoida
Superfamily UNIONOIDEA Rafinesque, 1820
Family UNIONIDAE s.s.
Genus Arcidopsis Simpson, 1900
Species Arcidopsis footei Theobald, 1876 |
To find what little information exists about Arcidopsis, check out:
- Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 291-314.
- Ramakrishna & A. Dey. 2007. Handbook on Indian Freshwater Molluscs. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 399 pp.
- Subba Rao, N.V. 1989. Handbook freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 289 pp.
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