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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Mycetopodinae

genus Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835: synonymy
     5 Recent freshwater species (6 total species)

Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835
d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 41.
Type species: Mycetopoda soleniformis d’Orbigny, 1835 (sub. desig. by Gray, 1847: 197) = Mycetopoda soleniformis

Mycetopus d’Orbigny, 1840
d’Orbigny, 1840. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5: pl. 66.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5: 600.
(error for Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835)

Mycetopodus Mousson, 1869
‘d’Orbigny’ Mousson, 1869. Malak. Blatt. 16: 189.
(error for Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835)

Micetopus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 21.
(error for Mycetopus d’Orbigny, 1840)

Mycetodopa Sterki, 1901
Sterki, 1901. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 33: 146.
(error for Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Glabaris (s.s.)Simpson (1900)
MycetopusCorsi (1900), Martens (1900)
MycetopodaSimpson (1900), Ihering (1910), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1921), Frierson (1922), ... Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Torres et al. (2024), Cummings et al. (2025)
Glabaris (sec. Virgula)Simpson (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.)Simpson (1914)

 
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