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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Anodontina | Anodonta

species Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758): specimens

278 available nominal species synonyms (417 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta cygneaGraf (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 pallaryiIUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta lucasiIUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta stagnalisKantor et al. (2010), Mezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta zellensis zellensisKantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensis micheliKantor et al. (2010)
Colletopterum oblongumKantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta parmataKantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensisMezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta (s.s.) cygneaVinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) stagnalisVinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) zellensisVinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta anatinaGomes-dos-Santos et al. (2019)
Anodonta cygnea cygneaBogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea zellensisBogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea stagnalisBogatov (2022)

Range

Europe and northern Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Anodonta cygnea

MUSSELp Specimen Records


image of lot SMF_5168
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)

image of lot MNHN_22344
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.