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Unionoida cum Grano Salis
Family MARGARITIFERIDAE
Global Distribution of the Margaritiferidae. The thin purple wedge of the pie depicts the relative species diversity of the family (17 of 927).
Family Margaritiferidae
Subfamily Margaritiferinae
Subfamily Gibbosulinae |
The Margaritiferidae consists of only 17 recognized species, and although the distribution of the family is patchy, it is found in Nearctica, Palearctica and Indotropica. Various genus-level classifications have been used over the years, and until recently we have regarded the family to represent a single genus. New phylogenetic information now divides the species among four genera.
Superfamily UNIONOIDEA Rafinesque, 1820
Family MARGARITIFERIDAE Haas, 1940
Subfamily MARGARITIFERINAE s.s.
 Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816
- Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
- Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
- Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
- Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
- Margaritifera marrianae R.I. Johnson, 1983
- Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
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 Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912
- Margaritifera monodonta (Say, 1829)
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Pseudunio Haas, 1910
- Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)
- Margaritifera homsensis (Lea, 1865)
- Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918)
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Subfamily Gibbosulinae Bogan, Bolotov, Froufe & Lopes-Lima, 2018
Gibbosula Simpson, 1900
- Gibbosula crassa (Wood, 1815)
- Gibbosula confragosa Frierson, 1928
- Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863)
- Gibbosula nanningensis Qian, Fang & He, 2015
- Gibbosula polysticta (Heude, 1877)
- Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875)
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