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species Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758): specimens

278 available nominal species synonyms (417 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta cygnea — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Zanatta et al. (2007), Taylor et al. (2007), ... Dai et al. (2025), Perkins et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Anodonta cygnaea [sic] — Dhora (2009)
Anodonta pallaryi — IUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta lucasi — IUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta stagnalis — Kantor et al. (2010), Mezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta zellensis zellensis — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensis micheli — Kantor et al. (2010)
Colletopterum oblongum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta parmata — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensis — Mezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta (s.s.) cygnea — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) stagnalis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) zellensis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta anatina — Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2019)
Anodonta cygnea cygnea — Bogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea zellensis — Bogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea stagnalis — Bogatov (2022)

Range

Europe and northern Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Anodonta cygnea

MUSSELp Specimen Records

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SMF_5168
[no locality data. Probably the same as SMF 4979] possibly: Teich b. Schönfeld nahe Kassel [Germany]

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BMNH_93-2-4-1737
afflu. de la Guardiana, Portugal

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SMF_79016
Dnjepr [Dniepr], b. Kiew [Kiev] [Ukraine]

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LS_257
Europe, a l’embouchure des fleuves

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SMF_5140
Lache b. Platschütz b. Allenburg [Germany]

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SMF_5145
Plattensee [Lake Balaton] Ungarn [Hungary]

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SMF_5157
Villeneuve, Genfer See [Lake Geneva] [Switzerland]

MNHN_MP_2205. [illegible] (Ain)

MNHN_MP_2043. [illegible] Versailles

MNHN_MP_2209. [locality illegible]

MNHN_MP_2291. [locality illegible]

MNHN_MP_2042. Callebasse, près Gannat (Allier)

MNHN_MP_2064. Coimbre

MNHN_MP_2048. du Rhône

MNHN_MP_2207. Étang de la Faye (Charente)

MNHN_MP_2208. Étang de la Faye (Charente)

MNHN_MP_2213. Foja [Portugal]

MNHN_MP_2100. Foret-de-Concise près Laval (Mayenne)

MNHN_MP_2056. La Loire “infer” [illegible] (Loire)

MNHN_MP_2290. La Louet [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2098. La Saône, à Trévoux

MNHN_MP_2304. La Vienne, à Poitiers

MNHN_MP_2071. Lac St-Clair [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2212. Lagoa do Ervedal [Portugal ?]

INHS_990. Lake Kalterer, Südtirol, Kaltern, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

MNHN_MP_2206. Le Né (Charente)

INHS_19856. Lubrzanka Creek, 6 km S Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland

MNHN_MP_2055. Moulins (Allier)

INHS_21428. Nieuwe Merwede, S of Dordrecht, "Kop van Land", South Holland, Netherlands

MNHN_MP_2037. Penmur (Morbihan)

MNHN_MP_2039. Penmur (Morbihan) [illegible]

INHS_21798. Pest, Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary

INHS_48948. Segre River, Sant Llorenc de Montgai, Catalonia, Spain

MNHN_MP_2214. Silveiro près Fermantelles [Portugal]

SMF_4979. Teich b. Schönfeld nahe Kassel [Germany]

MNHN_MP_2210. vallas do Rol, Mondego [Portugal]

Algeria

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BMNH_93-2-4-1950
Algiers

BMNH_MP_366. La Calle

England

INHS_23639. New Bedford River, Sutton Gault, 11 km from Ely, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England

France

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MNHN_22173
a Grosne, à La Ferté (Saône-et-Loire)

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MNHN_22345
Avignon (Vaucluse)

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MNHN_22249
Brainans (Jura)

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MNHN_22165
Charolles (Saône-et-Loire)

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MNHN_22166
Étang de Falavier (Isère)

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MNHN_22312
fossés des forts de la Vitriolerie

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MNHN_22555
Heuilly-sur-Saône (Côte-d’Or)

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MNHN_22344
La Grosne, à la Ferté (Saône-et-Loire)

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MNHN_22230
La Loire, à Balbigny (Loire)

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MNHN_22258
La Saône à Lyon

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MNHN_22406
La Saône, à Auxonne (Côte-d’Or)

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MNHN_22102
lac d’Annecy (Savoie)

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MNHN_22175
Le Drugeon, Doubs

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MNHN_22201
Le Menthon (Ain)

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MNHN_22163
Montagu (Vendée)

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MNHN_22250
Poligny (Jura)

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MNHN_22451
Rhône au confluent de la Mulatière

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MNHN_22403
Saint-Laurent d’Ain

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MNHN_22346
Saône, à Auxonne (Côte-d’Or)

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MNHN_22589
Tournus (Saône-et-Loire)

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MNHN_22566
Varennes-Saint-Sauveur (Saône-et-Loire)

MNHN_MP_2204. [illegible] (Isère)

MNHN_MP_2178. [illegible] (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_MP_2292. [illegible] (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_22105. [illegible] lac de Malpas (Doubs)?

MNHN_MP_2047. [illegible] Pontoise (Seine-et-Oise)

MNHN_MP_2099. Angers (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_MP_2108. Angers (Maine-et-Loire) / Frejus (Var)

MNHN_MP_2211. Arles

MNHN_22259. Avignon (Vaucluse)

MNHN_MP_2150. Espalion (Aveyron)

MNHN_22452. fort des Hirondelles à Lyon

MNHN_22409. fosses de la Mouche à Lyon

MNHN_22313. fossés des forts de la Mouche à Lyon

MNHN_MP_2046. fossés des forts de la Vitriolerie

INHS_21797. France

MNHN_MP_2006. Garonne, près Fréjus

MNHN_22260. Irigny (Rhône)

MNHN_MP_2041. La Jarrie

MNHN_MP_2293. La Loire à Nantes (Loire-Infereur)

MNHN_22411. La Saône à Neuville (Saône)

MNHN_MP_2179. La Seine, St-Ouen

MNHN_22104. lac d’Aiguebelette (Savoie)

MNHN_22103. lac d’Annecy, Savoie

MNHN_22103B. lac d’Annecy, Savoie

MNHN_MP_2215. Lac de Paladru [France]

MNHN_MP_2070. lac du Bourget (Savoie)

MNHN_MP_2008. le canal de Givors, à Givors, Rhône

MNHN_22261. le canal de Mons à Condé dans le département du Nord

MNHN_22407B. Le Drageon (Doubs)

MNHN_22407C. Le Drageon (Jura)

MNHN_22407. Le Drugeon (Jura)

MNHN_22410. Le Rhône au confluence de la [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2177. le Rhône, à la Mulatière (Rhône)

MNHN_22408. Le Rhône, au confluence, Lyon

MNHN_22453. Rhône au confluent, à Lyon

MNHN_MP_2040. Saint-Laurent-d’Ain (Ain)

MNHN_22590. Tournus (Saône-et-Loire)

Greece

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MNHN_MP_0031
Lac Copais

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MNHN_MP_0129
Lac Copais

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BMNH_1023-12-31-95
Lake Beschik, Macedonia

MNHN_MP_0189. Lake Beschik, Macedonia

Hungary

INHS_21799. Anglia, Hungary

Switzerland

INHS_21800. Aargau [= Kanton Aargau], Switzerland

MNHN_22413. lac de Morat (Suisse)

MNHN_22412. lac de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

MNHN_MP_2072. Lac Morat (Suisee)

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Austria

Mp_2654_Acyg. (16S: AF232799, COI: AF232824, go to Genbank) Lake Obertrumersee Salzburgh, Austria.

Germany

SMF_360684. (16S: OK055694, 28S: OK077679, COI: OK050304, go to Genbank) Großer Woog, Darmstadt (49.87345, 8.6709).

Portugal

Mp_3580_AcygnPF2.8. (COI: EF571398, go to Genbank) Pateira de Fermentelos, Vouga Basin, Portugal.

Russia

RMBH_biv_207_1. (16S: MK574311, 28S: MK574450, COI: MK034159, go to Genbank) Russia: European part, Kaliningrad Region, Lebedinoye Lake (54.7938° N, 20.5286° E), Baltic Sea drainage.

RMBH_biv_207_2. (16S: MK574312, 28S: MK574451, COI: MK574184, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_207_3. (16S: MK574313, 28S: MK574452, COI: MK034160, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_204_1. (16S: MK574307, 28S: MK574446, COI: MK034157, go to Genbank) Russia: European part, Moscow Region, Lake Glubokoye (55.7519°N, 36.5102°E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage.

RMBH_biv_204_3. (16S: MK574308, 28S: MK574447, COI: MK034158, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_204_6. (16S: MK574309, 28S: MK574448, COI: MK574182, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_204_7. (16S: MK574310, 28S: MK574449, COI: MK574183, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_194_1. (16S: MK574305, 28S: MK574444, COI: MK034153, go to Genbank) Russia: European part, Moskow Region, Medvezhii Lakes (55.8650° N, 38.0010° E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage.

RMBH_biv_194_2. (16S: MK574306, 28S: MK574445, COI: MK034154, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_769_1. (COI: MT027890, go to Genbank) Russia: European part, Voronezh Region, Tikhaya Sosna River (50.8570° N, 39.0790° E), Don Basin, Azov Sea drainage.

Sweden

NRM_42772-M094. (16S: DQ060164, 18S: DQ060186, COI: DQ060170, ITS1: DQ060186, go to Genbank) Sweden: Sommen lake.

Switzerland

NMBE_565034. (28S: OK077597, COI: OK050215, go to Genbank) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857).

NMBE_565035. (16S: OK055611, 28S: OK077598, COI: OK050216, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565036. (16S: OK055612, 28S: OK077599, COI: OK050217, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565037. (16S: OK055613, 28S: OK077600, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565818. (16S: OK055653, 28S: OK077638, COI: OK050252, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565041. (16S: OK055617, go to Genbank) Etang sous la Sagne (47.2303, 7.0883).

NMBE_565042. (16S: OK055618, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_559863. (16S: OK055583, 28S: OK077567, COI: OK050185, go to Genbank) Gouille Marion, Mies (46.3035, 6.1575).

NMBE_559864. (16S: OK055584, 28S: OK077568, COI: OK050186, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_559865. (16S: OK055585, 28S: OK077569, COI: OK050187, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565043. (16S: OK055619, 28S: OK077604, go to Genbank) Hallwilersee, Beinwil (47.27235, 8.20932).

NMBE_565044. (16S: OK055620, 28S: OK077605, go to Genbank) Lac Brenet, Les Charbonnières (46.6672, 6.3172).

NMBE_565045. (16S: OK055621, 28S: OK077606, COI: OK050221, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_559875. (16S: OK055592, 28S: OK077577, go to Genbank) Lac Neuchâtel, St-Blaise (47.0109, 6.9806).

NMBE_566638. (16S: OK055669, go to Genbank) Nussbaumersee, Nussbaumen TG (47.6137, 8.8134).

NMBE_566631. (16S: OK055663, 28S: OK077652, COI: OK050270, go to Genbank) Sarnersee, Zollhaus OW (46.8459, 8.2029).

NMBE_565068. (16S: OK055641, go to Genbank) Verbano, Tenero Lido (46.1665, 8.8498).

NMBE_566632. (16S: OK055664, 28S: OK077653, COI: OK050271, go to Genbank) Vierwaldstättersee, Küssnacht SZ (47.0776, 8.4301).

NMBE_566633. (16S: OK055665, 28S: OK077654, COI: OK050272, go to Genbank) ditto.

NMBE_565080. (16S: OK055652, 28S: OK077636, COI: OK050251, go to Genbank) Walensee, Unterterzen (47.11356, 9.24982).

NMBE_559890. (16S: OK055606, 28S: OK077591, COI: OK050209, go to Genbank) Zugersee, Zug (47.17314, 8.50292).

Turkey

GCMAE_M34_A_1. (16S: MZ518961, 28S: MZ519198, COI: MZ510979, go to Genbank) Turkey: Çamlıca: Maritsa Basin (40.768715, 26.514664).

GCMAE_M34_A_2. (16S: MZ518962, 28S: MZ519199, COI: MZ510980, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV2352. (COI: MZ510965, go to Genbank) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434).

CIIMAR_BIV2353. (COI: MZ510966, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV2354. (16S: MZ518915, 28S: MZ519152, COI: MZ510967, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV2355. (16S: MZ518916, 28S: MZ519153, COI: MZ510968, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV2356. (16S: MZ518917, 28S: MZ519154, COI: MZ510969, go to Genbank) ditto.