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Palearctic Freshwater Mussels

Key References

The literature on the freshwater mussels of the Palearctic Region is enormous and varied. For a more complete bibliography, visit the Freshwater Mollusk Bibliography. That is a searchable interface. The somewhat annotated list below is intended to show the primary sources we have used to estimate the modern diversity of unionoids in the region and to compare the classification systems proposed under different species concepts.

Comparatory Method

• Shikov, E.V. & M.N. Zatravkin. 1991. The comparative method of taxonomic study of Bivalvia used by Soviet malacologists. Malakologische Abhandlungen 15: 149-159.
• Korniushin, A.V. 1998. Review of the studies on freshwater mollusc systematics carried out by the Russian taxonomic school. Bivalvia I. Malacological Review, Supplement 7: 65-82.

Global Treatments

• Haas, F. 1969. Superfamilia Unionacea. Das Tierreich 88. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. 663 pp.
• Haas, F. 1969. Superfamily Unionacea. pp. N411-470. [in] R.C. Moore, ed. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N, Vol. 1. Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas. 489 pp.
• Simpson, C.T. 1900. Synopsis of the Naiades, or pearly freshwater mussels. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 22: 501-1044.
• Simpson, C.T. 1914. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naiades or Pearly Freshwater Mussels. Published Privately by Bryant Walker, Detroit. 1540 pp.
• Starobogatov, Ya.I. 1970. Fauna Mollyuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental’nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 371 pp.
• 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.

Palearctic Biological Species

• Bába, K. 2000. An area-analytical zoogeographical classification of Palearctic Unionaceae species. Bollettino Malacologico 36: 133-140.
• Haas, F. 1940. A tentative classification of the Palearctic unionids. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 24: 115-141.
• Zhadin, V.I. 1938. Sem. Unionidae. Fauna SSSR, Mollyuski 4. Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 169 pp.
• Zhadin, V.I. 1952. Mollyuski presnykh i solonovatykh von SSSR. Opredeliteli po Fauna SSSR 46. Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 376 pp.
• Zhadin, V.I. 1965. Mollusks of Fresh and Brackish Waters of the U.S.S.R. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem. 368 pp. [English translation of Zhadin (1952) by A. Mecado]

Europe

• Bank, R.A., P. Bouchet, G. Falkner, E. Gittenberger, B. Hausdorf, T. von Proschwitz & T.E.F. Ripken. 2001. CLECOM-PROJECT: Supraspecific classification of European non-marine Mollusca (CLECOM Sections I & II). Heldia 4: 77-128.
• Falkner, G., R.A. Bank & T. von Proschwitz. 2001. CLECOM-PROJECT: Check-list of the non-marine Molluscan species-group taxa of the states of Northern, Atlantic and Central Europe (CLECOM I). Heldia 4: 1-76.
• Falkner, G., T.E.J. Ripken & M. Falkner. 2002. Mollusques Continentaux de France: Liste de Référence Annotée et Bibliographie. Patrimoines Naturels 52. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Paris. 350 pp.
• Nagel, K.-O. & G. Badino. 2001. Population genetics and systematics of European Unionoidea. pp. 51-80. [in] G. Bauer & K. Wächtler, eds. Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Ecological Studies 145. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 394 pp.
• Nagel, K.-O., G. Badino & G. Celebrano. 1998. Systematics of European naiades (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae and Unionidae): A review and some new aspects. Bivalvia I. Malacological Review, Supplement 7: 83-104.

Margaritiferidae

• Huff, S.W., D. Campbell, D.L. Gustafson, C. Lydeard, C.R. Altaba & G. Giribet. 2004. Investigations into the phylogenetic relationships of freshwater pearl mussels (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae) based on molecular data: implications for their taxonomy and biogeography. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70: 379-388.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Systematics and distribution of Recent Margaritiferidae. pp. 33-49. [in] G. Bauer & K. Wächtler, eds. Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Ecological Studies 145. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 394 pp.
• Ziuganov, V., A. Zotin, L. Nezlin & V. Tretiakov. 1994. The Freshwater Pearl Mussels and their Relationships with Salmonid Fish. VNIRO Publishing House, Moscow. 104 pp.

Anodontini

• Modell, H. 1945. Die Anodontinae, Ortm. emend. (Najad., Mollusca). Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 78: 58-100.

Northern Africa

• Daget, J. 1998. Catalogue Raisonné des Mollusques Bivalves d’Eau Douce Africains. Backhuys Publishers/ORSTOM, Leiden/Paris. 329 pp.
• Van Damme, D. 1984. The Freshwater Mollusca of Northern Africa: Distribution, Biogeography and Palaeoecology. Developments in Hydobiology 25. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht. 164 pp.

Far East

• Habe, T. 1977. Systematics of the Mollusca of Japan: Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Hokuryukan, Toyko. 372 pp.
• Habe, T. 1991 [1990]. Catalogue of non-marine molluscs in Japan. Hitachiobi 56: 3-7.
• Kondo, T. 1982. Taxonomic revision of Inversidens (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Venus 41: 181-198.
• Kondo, T. 1997. Taxonomic position and distribution of Unio biwae (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Venus 56: 41-47.
• Kondo, T. 1998. Revision of the genus Inversiunio (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Venus 57: 85-93.

Tigris-Euphrates

Biggs, H.E. 1971. Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau-III. Journal of Conchology 27: 211-220.

Falkner, G. 1994. Systematik vorderorientalischer Najaden als Vorstudie zur Bearbeitung archäologischer Funde. Forschungen und Berichte Zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg 53: 135-162.

Haas, F. 1952. Shells collected by the Peabody Museum Expedition to the Near East, 1950. I. Mollusks from the Persian Gulf. Nautilus 65: 114-119.

Schütt, H. 1983. Die Molluskenfauna der Süßwässer im Einzugsgebiet des Orontes unter Berücksichtigung benachbarter Flußsysteme. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 113: 17-91.

Schütt, H. 1992. Die grossen süßwassermuscheln von Dalaman (Turkei) (Eulamellibranchiata: Unionacea). Malakologische Abhandlungen 16: 59-63.

Starmühlner, F. & A. Edlauer. 1957. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949/50. Sitzungsberichten der Österreichische Akadamie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 166: 435-494.

Comparatory Paleartic Species

• Bogatov, V.V., L.A. Prozorova & Ya.I. Starobogatov. 2003. The family Margaritiferidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in Russia. Ruthenica 13: 41-52.
• Bogatov, V.V., Ya.I. Starobogatov & L.A. Prozorova. 2005. Mollusks of the genus Colletopterum (Anodontinae, Bivalvia) from Russia and adjacent territories. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 84: 1050-1063.
• Kantor Yu.I. & A.V. Sysoev. 2005. Katalog Mollyuskov Rossii i Sopredel’nykh Stran. KMK Scientific Press Ltd., Moscow. 627 pp.
• Starobogatov, Ya.I., L.A. Prozorova, V.V. Bogatov & E.M. Sayenko. 2004. Bivalvia. pp. 11-251. [in] S.J. Tsalolikhin, ed. Opredelitel’ Presnovodnykh Besnozvonochnykh Rossii i Sopredel’nykh Territorii 6. Nauka, St. Petersburg.
• Zatravkin, M.N. 1983. Unionidae in the fauna of the USSR and their role as intermediate hosts of Trematoda and as eliminators cercariae. pp. 40-44. [in] I.M. Likharev, ed. Mollyuski: Sistematika, Ekologiya i Zakonomernosti Rasprostraneniya. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad. 262 pp.

Eastern Europe/Transcaucasia

• Akromovski, N.N. 1976. Fauna Armyanskoi SSR: Mollyuski (Mollusca). Akademiya Nauk Armyanskoi SSR, Yerevan. 268 pp.
• Stadnichenko, A.P. 1984. Molyuski (Perlivnitsevi, Kul’kovi). Fauna Ukraini 29. 382 pp.
• Zatravkin, M.N. 1987. Recent species of the subfamily Psilunioninae (Bivalvia, Unionidae) in the fauna of the USSR. Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii 92: 46-59.

Central Asia

• Starobogatov, Ya.I. & Z.I. Izzatullaev. 1984. Bivalvian molluscs of the family Unionidae in the Soviet Central Asia. Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii 89: 74-81.

Far East

Chernyshev, A.V. 2004. The generic systematics of the najads (Bivalvia, Unionida) of the Russian Far East. Byulleten' Dal'nevostochnogo Malakologicheskogo Obshchestva 8: 5-16.

Moskvicheva, I.M. 1973. Molluscs of the subfamily Anodontinae (Bivalvia, Unionida) in the Amur and Marine Territory basin. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 52: 822-834.

Moskvicheva, I.M. 1973. Unionoidea (Bivalvia) of the Amur and the Marine Territory basin. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 52: 1458-1471.

Zatravkin, M.N. & V.V. Bogatov. 1987. Krupnye Dvustvorchatye Mollyuski Presnykn i Solonovatykh Vod Dal’nego Vostoka SSSR: Opredelitel’. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Vladivostok. 153 pp.