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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


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North America

Central America

South America

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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Publication Graf & Cummings (2021): summary

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Full Citation

Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2021. A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1). eyaa034 (36 pp.). Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Contradens crossei Jeratthitikul et al., 2019 = Lens maenamensis

‘Deshayes’ of Authors.
Jeratthitikul et al., 2019. Systemat. Biodiv. 17: 140, figs. 1.7-1.9.
Konopleva et al., 2019. Ecologica Montenegrina 24: 30.
Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1.
Graf & Cummings, 2021. J. Moll. Studies 87(1): 25.
(misidentified reference to Unio crossei Deshayes & Jullien, 1876)

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