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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini

subtribe ANODONTINA Rafinesque, 1820: syonymy
     3 genera

ANODONTINA Rafinesque, 1820
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 316 [as ‘Anodontidia, Les Anodontides’].
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286, 381.
Ortmann, 1910. Nautilus 23: 117.
Type genus: Anodonta Lamarck, 1799 = Anodonta

PSEUDANODONTINA Stadnichenko, 1984
‘Jaeckel’ Stadnichenko, 1984. Fauna Ukrayiny 29: 112.
Type genus: Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876 = Pseudanodonta

ANADONTINA Zatravkin, 1983
‘Rafinesque’ Zatravkin, 1983. [in] I.M. Likharev, Molluscs: 41.
(error for Anodontidae Rafinesque, 1820)
Type genus: Anodonta Lamarck, 1799 = Anodonta

BRACHYANODONTINA Starobogatov et al., 2004
Starobogatov et al., 2004. Key Freshw. Invert. Russia 6 (molluscs, polychaetes, nemerteans): 30.
Type genus: Brachyanodon Fischer & Crosse, 1894 = Brachyanodon

 
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