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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Castaliini genus Castalia Lamarck, 1819: species
4 available nominal genus synonyms (6 total synonyms) | cladomics  Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819
syonymy (13 available, 31 total) | specimens (400 + 1 Genbank voucher)
Range: Widespread, from the Guyanas south to the Paraná, including the Amazon Basin west to Ecuador and Peru. (South America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, ITS1, mtGenome
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia cordata Swainson, 1840
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (19)
Range: Orinoco River and the Guyanas, South America. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia crosseana Hidalgo, 1865
syonymy (1 available, 3 total) | specimens (12)
Range: Tributaries to the Amazon, Ecuador. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia ecarinata Mousson, 1869
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (19)
Range: Magdalena River, Colombia. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia inflata d’Orbigny, 1835
syonymy (1 available, 4 total) | specimens (107)
Range: Paraná Basin, Argentina to Brazil. (South America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia martensi (Ihering, 1891)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (66)
Range: Rivers draining to the Atlantic in southern Brazil and Uruguay. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A1ae
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia multisulcata Hupé, 1857
syonymy (1 available, 3 total) | specimens (5)
Range: Paraná-Paraguay System?, South America (MUSSELpdb). (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia nehringi (Ihering, 1893)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (22)
Range: Upper Paraná in Brazil and Paraguay. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia orbignyi (Deville & Hupé, 1850)
syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Poorly defined distribution in the “Upper Amazon,” Peru and Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia orinocensis Morrison, 1943
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Orinoco River, Colombia and Venezuela. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia psammoica (d’Orbigny, 1835)
syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (88)
Range: Paraná-Paraguay System, Brazil to Argentina. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia stevensi (H.B. Baker, 1930)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (37)
Range: Orinoco and Essiquibo basins of Colombia, Venezuela and Guyana. (South America)
Genbank sequences: 18S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Castalia undosa Martens, 1885
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (47)
Range: Upper Paraná Basin in Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
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