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freshwater mussels
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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Anodontina
genus Brachyanodon Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy
5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)
Synonymy
Brachyanodon Fischer & Crosse, 1894
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 517.
Type species: Anodonta chapalensis Crosse & Fischer, 1893 (sub. desig. by Thiele, 1934: 832) = Brachyanodon impura
Arnoldina Hannibal, 1912
Hannibal, 1912. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 10(2): 128.
Type species: Anodonta dejecta Lewis, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Brachyanodon californiensis
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Brachyanodon, since 1900.
Anodonta (s.s.) — Martens (1900), Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Heard (1975)
Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Hannibal (1912), Ortmann (1914), Haas (1929), Thiele (1934), ... FMCS (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Altaba et al. (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026)
Glabaris (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Arnoldina — Hannibal (1912)
Anodonta (Group of A. cygnea) — Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Group of A. grandis) — Simpson (1914)
Anodontites (s.s.) — Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Group of A. dejecta) — Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Arnoldina) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Brachyanodon) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Pyganodon — Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009)
Beringiana — Bogatov & Starobogatov (2001)
Brachyanodon — Cummings et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
