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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Mycetopodinae

genus Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835: species

1 available nominal genus synonym (5 total synonyms) | cladomics

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Decorative image of a representative of Mycetopoda legumen

Mycetopoda legumen (Martens, 1888)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (57)

Range: Widespread in the Paraná System and coastal streams in Uruguay and southern Brazil. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1927

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (35)

Range: Known only from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela. (South America)

Decorative image of a representative of Mycetopoda siliquosa

Mycetopoda siliquosa (Spix in Wagner, 1827)

syonymy (13 available, 18 total) | specimens (223 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Widespread from the Paraná System, north to the São Francisco and Amazon basins, South America. (South America)

Genbank sequences: 28S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase

Mycetopoda soleniformis d’Orbigny, 1835

syonymy (5 available, 5 total) | specimens (49)

Range: Paraná and Paraguay rivers, through the upper Amazon Basin of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, to Venezuela, South America. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Mycetopoda subsinuata

Mycetopoda subsinuata (Sowerby, 1868)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (42)

Range: Guatemala and El Salvador, south to the Rio Magdalena, Colombia. (Central America, South America)

Mycetopoda diluculi Pilsbry in Wanner, 1921 (Triassic)

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Triassic, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

 
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