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Taxonomy

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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


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Geography

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North America

Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

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Species Richness & Endemism by
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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Publication Giribet & Wheeler (2002): summary

publication summary

Full Citation

Giribet, G. & W. Wheeler. 2002. On bivalve phylogeny: a high-level analysis of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) based upon combined morphological and DNA sequence data. Invertebrate Biology 121(4): 271-324. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Psilunio littoralis Giribet & Wheeler, 2002 = Unio ravoisieri

Giribet & Wheeler, 2002. Invert. Biol. 121(4): 277.
Giribet & Distel, 2003. Mol. Syst. Phylogeo. Moll.: 52.
Huff et al., 2004. J. Moll. Studies 70: 381 [as ‘Potomida littoralis’].
Jeffrey et al., 2016. J. Comp. Physiol. B 187: 91.
Vikhrev et al., 2018. Systemat. Biodiv. 16(1): Appendix 5 [as ‘Potomida littoralis’].
(misidentified reference to Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798)

Taxonomic Opinions

Corbicula fluminea

Dreissena polymorpha

Lampsilis cardium

Neotrigonia bednalli

Neotrigonia margaritacea

Psilunio littoralis = Potomida littoralis

Sphaerium striatinum

 
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