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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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genus Brachyanodon Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy
     1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Brachyanodon Fischer & Crosse, 1894
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 517.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Anodonta chapalensis Crosse & Fischer, 1893 (sub. desig. by Thiele, 1934: 832) = Brachyanodon impura

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta (s.s.)Martens (1900), Frierson (1927)
AnodontaSimpson (1900), Hannibal (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1929), Thiele (1934), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Whelan et al. (2023), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024), Perkins et al. (2025)
Glabaris (s.s.)Simpson (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.)Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Brachyanodon)Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
BrachyanodonCummings et al. (2025)

 
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