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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae

genus Anodontites Bruguière, 1792: species

10 available nominal genus synonyms (15 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites aroana

Anodontites aroana H.B. Baker, 1930

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (7)

Range: Venezuela. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites colombiensis

Anodontites colombiensis Marshall, 1922

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (22)

Range: Known from the Rio Colorado and adjacent streams in northern Colombia. (South America)

IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase

Anodontites crispata Bruguière, 1792

syonymy (5 available, 8 total) | specimens (68)

Range: Widespread in tropical South America, from the Amazon and north. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites cylindracea

Anodontites cylindracea (Lea, 1838)

syonymy (4 available, 6 total) | specimens (37)

Range: Found from the Pánuco basin in San Luis Potosí, south to the Usumacinta in Chiapas, México. (Central America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites elongata

Anodontites elongata (Swainson, 1823)

syonymy (9 available, 10 total) | specimens (56)

Range: Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru and Colombia; the Magdalena in Colombia; and the upper Paraguay in the Paraná Basin. (South America)

IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Anodontites elongatus)
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites ferrarisii

Anodontites ferrarisii (d’Orbigny, 1835)

syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (41)

Range: Lower Paraná System, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. (South America)

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites guanarensis

Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (24)

Range: Venezuela. (South America)

Genbank sequences: COI, COII
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites iheringi

Anodontites iheringi (Clessin, 1882)

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (26)

Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites infossa

Anodontites infossa H.B. Baker, 1930

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (9)

Range: Northern Venezuela. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites jaliscoensis

Anodontites jaliscoensis Pilsbry, 1920

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (3)

Range: Near San Blas, Mexico. (Central America)

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites leotaudi

Anodontites leotaudi (Guppy, 1866)

syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (20)

Range: Venezuela and Trinidad. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites lucida

Anodontites lucida (d’Orbigny, 1835)

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (46)

Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites lurulenta

Anodontites lurulenta (Morelet, 1849)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (2)

Range: Rio Usumacinta, Mexico. (Central America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites montezuma

Anodontites montezuma (Lea, 1841)

syonymy (6 available, 11 total) | specimens (37)

Range: Lake Nicaragua and the Río Malacatoya, Nicaragua. (Central America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites moricandii

Anodontites moricandii (Lea, 1860)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (15)

Range: Lower São Francisco and Atlantic Streams as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites obtusa

Anodontites obtusa (Spix in Wagner, 1827)

syonymy (5 available, 8 total) | specimens (85)

Range: Disjunct distribution in Rio Tapajos in the Amazon Basin, the Rio San Francisco and adjacent coastal streams, and the Piracicaba in the upper Paraná, Brazil. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Anodontites patagonica (Lamarck, 1819)

syonymy (21 available, 33 total) | specimens (412)

Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal basins, Brazil to Argentina. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites schomburgiana

Anodontites schomburgiana (Sowerby, 1870)

syonymy (1 available, 4 total) | specimens (80)

Range: Described from British Guiana. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites solenidea

Anodontites solenidea (Sowerby, 1867)

syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (69)

Range: From the São Francisco [MUSSELpdb] south to the Paraná in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites tehuantepecensis

Anodontites tehuantepecensis (Crosse & Fischer, 1893)

syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (17)

Range: From the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, México south to Lago Maracaibo, northern Venezuela. (Central America, South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites tenebricosa

Anodontites tenebricosa (Lea, 1834)

syonymy (7 available, 10 total) | specimens (179)

Range: Widespread in the upper Amazon, coastal streams of southern Brazil and the Paraná Basin, South America. (South America)

IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites tortilis

Anodontites tortilis (Lea, 1852)

syonymy (5 available, 7 total) | specimens (101)

Range: From Guatemala south to the Magdalena and Orinoco basins of Colombia and Venezuela. (Central America, South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites trapesialis

Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819)

syonymy (37 available, 68 total) | specimens (839)

Range: Widespread in South America from the Paraná System through the Amazon Basin and northern drainages, and north to Mexico. (Central America, South America)

Genbank sequences: 18S, mtGenome
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites trapezea

Anodontites trapezea (Spix in Wagner, 1827)

syonymy (8 available, 14 total) | specimens (181)

Range: Paraná and Rio São Francisco basins, west to the upper Amazon, Brazil and Bolivia to Argentina (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Anodontites trigona

Anodontites trigona (Spix in Wagner, 1827)

syonymy (18 available, 26 total) | specimens (261)

Range: Patagonia and the Paraná Basin, Argentina, north through the Amazon to Colombia and Ecuador. (South America)

Genbank sequences: COI
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Anodontites trigonus)
other links: MolluscaBase

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