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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Anodontina | Anodonta

species Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758): specimens
     278 available nominal species synonyms (417 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta cygnea — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Zanatta et al. (2007), Taylor et al. (2007), ... Zieritz et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Anodonta cygnaea [sic] — Dhora (2009)
Anodonta stagnalis — Kantor et al. (2010), Mezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta zellensis zellensis — Kantor et al. (2010)
Colletopterum oblongum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta lucasi — IUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta parmata — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta pallaryi — IUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensis micheli — Kantor et al. (2010)
Anodonta zellensis — Mezhzherin et al. (2014)
Anodonta (s.s.) cygnea — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) stagnalis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta (s.s.) zellensis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta anatina — Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2019)
Anodonta cygnea cygnea — Bogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea stagnalis — Bogatov (2022)
Anodonta cygnea zellensis — Bogatov (2022)

Range

Europe and northern Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MNHN_MP_2205. [illegible] (Ain)

MNHN_MP_2043. [illegible] Versailles

MNHN_MP_2209. [locality illegible]

MNHN_MP_2291. [locality illegible]

MNHN_MP_2042. Callebasse, près Gannat (Allier)

MNHN_MP_2064. Coimbre

MNHN_MP_2048. du Rhône

MNHN_MP_2207. Étang de la Faye (Charente)

MNHN_MP_2208. Étang de la Faye (Charente)

MNHN_MP_2213. Foja [Portugal]

MNHN_MP_2100. Foret-de-Concise près Laval (Mayenne)

MNHN_MP_2056. La Loire “infer” [illegible] (Loire)

MNHN_MP_2290. La Louet [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2098. La Saône, à Trévoux

MNHN_MP_2304. La Vienne, à Poitiers

MNHN_MP_2071. Lac St-Clair [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2212. Lagoa do Ervedal [Portugal ?]

INHS_990. Lake Kalterer, Südtirol, Kaltern, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

MNHN_MP_2206. Le Né (Charente)

INHS_19856. Lubrzanka Creek, 6 km S Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland

MNHN_MP_2055. Moulins (Allier)

INHS_21428. Nieuwe Merwede, S of Dordrecht, "Kop van Land", South Holland, Netherlands

MNHN_MP_2037. Penmur (Morbihan)

MNHN_MP_2039. Penmur (Morbihan) [illegible]

INHS_21798. Pest, Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary

INHS_48948. Segre River, Sant Llorenc de Montgai, Catalonia, Spain

MNHN_MP_2214. Silveiro près Fermantelles [Portugal]

SMF_4979. Teich b. Schönfeld nahe Kassel [Germany]

MNHN_MP_2210. vallas do Rol, Mondego [Portugal]

Algeria

BMNH_MP_366. La Calle

England

INHS_23639. New Bedford River, Sutton Gault, 11 km from Ely, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England

France

MNHN_MP_2204. [illegible] (Isère)

MNHN_MP_2178. [illegible] (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_MP_2292. [illegible] (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_22105. [illegible] lac de Malpas (Doubs)?

MNHN_MP_2047. [illegible] Pontoise (Seine-et-Oise)

MNHN_MP_2099. Angers (Maine-et-Loire)

MNHN_MP_2108. Angers (Maine-et-Loire) / Frejus (Var)

MNHN_MP_2211. Arles

MNHN_22259. Avignon (Vaucluse)

MNHN_MP_2150. Espalion (Aveyron)

MNHN_22452. fort des Hirondelles à Lyon

MNHN_22409. fosses de la Mouche à Lyon

MNHN_22313. fossés des forts de la Mouche à Lyon

MNHN_MP_2046. fossés des forts de la Vitriolerie

INHS_21797. France

MNHN_MP_2006. Garonne, près Fréjus

MNHN_22260. Irigny (Rhône)

MNHN_MP_2041. La Jarrie

MNHN_MP_2293. La Loire à Nantes (Loire-Infereur)

MNHN_22411. La Saône à Neuville (Saône)

MNHN_MP_2179. La Seine, St-Ouen

MNHN_22104. lac d’Aiguebelette (Savoie)

MNHN_22103. lac d’Annecy, Savoie

MNHN_22103B. lac d’Annecy, Savoie

MNHN_MP_2215. Lac de Paladru [France]

MNHN_MP_2070. lac du Bourget (Savoie)

MNHN_MP_2008. le canal de Givors, à Givors, Rhône

MNHN_22261. le canal de Mons à Condé dans le département du Nord

MNHN_22407B. Le Drageon (Doubs)

MNHN_22407C. Le Drageon (Jura)

MNHN_22407. Le Drugeon (Jura)

MNHN_22410. Le Rhône au confluence de la [illegible]

MNHN_MP_2177. le Rhône, à la Mulatière (Rhône)

MNHN_22408. Le Rhône, au confluence, Lyon

MNHN_22453. Rhône au confluent, à Lyon

MNHN_MP_2040. Saint-Laurent-d’Ain (Ain)

MNHN_22590. Tournus (Saône-et-Loire)

Greece

MNHN_MP_0189. Lake Beschik, Macedonia

Hungary

INHS_21799. Anglia, Hungary

Switzerland

INHS_21800. Aargau [= Kanton Aargau], Switzerland

MNHN_22413. lac de Morat (Suisse)

MNHN_22412. lac de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

MNHN_MP_2072. Lac Morat (Suisee)

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Austria

Mp_2654_Acyg. (16S, COI) Lake Obertrumersee Salzburgh, Austria

Germany

SMF_360684. (16S, 28S, COI) Großer Woog, Darmstadt (49.87345, 8.6709)

Portugal

Mp_3580_AcygnPF2.8. (COI) Pateira de Fermentelos, Vouga Basin, Portugal

Russia

RMBH_biv_207_1. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Kaliningrad Region, Lebedinoye Lake (54.7938° N, 20.5286° E), Baltic Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_207_2. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Kaliningrad Region, Lebedinoye Lake (54.7938° N, 20.5286° E), Baltic Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_207_3. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Kaliningrad Region, Lebedinoye Lake (54.7938° N, 20.5286° E), Baltic Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_204_1. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moscow Region, Lake Glubokoye (55.7519°N, 36.5102°E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_204_3. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moscow Region, Lake Glubokoye (55.7519°N, 36.5102°E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_204_6. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moscow Region, Lake Glubokoye (55.7519°N, 36.5102°E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_204_7. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moscow Region, Lake Glubokoye (55.7519°N, 36.5102°E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_194_1. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moskow Region, Medvezhii Lakes (55.8650° N, 38.0010° E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_194_2. (16S, 28S, COI) Russia: European part, Moskow Region, Medvezhii Lakes (55.8650° N, 38.0010° E), Volga Basin, Caspian Sea drainage

RMBH_biv_769_1. (COI) Russia: European part, Voronezh Region, Tikhaya Sosna River (50.8570° N, 39.0790° E), Don Basin, Azov Sea drainage

Sweden

NRM_42772-M094. (16S, 18S, COI, ITS1) Sweden: Sommen lake

Switzerland

NMBE_565034. (28S, COI) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857)

NMBE_565035. (16S, 28S, COI) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857)

NMBE_565036. (16S, 28S, COI) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857)

NMBE_565037. (16S, 28S) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857)

NMBE_565818. (16S, 28S, COI) Ceresio, Agno Camping (45.99222, 8.89857)

NMBE_565041. (16S) Etang sous la Sagne (47.2303, 7.0883)

NMBE_565042. (16S) Etang sous la Sagne (47.2303, 7.0883)

NMBE_559863. (16S, 28S, COI) Gouille Marion, Mies (46.3035, 6.1575)

NMBE_559864. (16S, 28S, COI) Gouille Marion, Mies (46.3035, 6.1575)

NMBE_559865. (16S, 28S, COI) Gouille Marion, Mies (46.3035, 6.1575)

NMBE_565043. (16S, 28S) Hallwilersee, Beinwil (47.27235, 8.20932)

NMBE_565044. (16S, 28S) Lac Brenet, Les Charbonnières (46.6672, 6.3172)

NMBE_565045. (16S, 28S, COI) Lac Brenet, Les Charbonnières (46.6672, 6.3172)

NMBE_559875. (16S, 28S) Lac Neuchâtel, St-Blaise (47.0109, 6.9806)

NMBE_566638. (16S) Nussbaumersee, Nussbaumen TG (47.6137, 8.8134)

NMBE_566631. (16S, 28S, COI) Sarnersee, Zollhaus OW (46.8459, 8.2029)

NMBE_565068. (16S) Verbano, Tenero Lido (46.1665, 8.8498)

NMBE_566632. (16S, 28S, COI) Vierwaldstättersee, Küssnacht SZ (47.0776, 8.4301)

NMBE_566633. (16S, 28S, COI) Vierwaldstättersee, Küssnacht SZ (47.0776, 8.4301)

NMBE_565080. (16S, 28S, COI) Walensee, Unterterzen (47.11356, 9.24982)

NMBE_559890. (16S, 28S, COI) Zugersee, Zug (47.17314, 8.50292)

Turkey

GCMAE_M34_A_1. (16S, 28S, COI) Turkey: Çamlıca: Maritsa Basin (40.768715, 26.514664)

GCMAE_M34_A_2. (16S, 28S, COI) Turkey: Çamlıca: Maritsa Basin (40.768715, 26.514664)

CIIMAR_BIV2352. (COI) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434)

CIIMAR_BIV2353. (COI) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434)

CIIMAR_BIV2354. (16S, 28S, COI) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434)

CIIMAR_BIV2355. (16S, 28S, COI) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434)

CIIMAR_BIV2356. (16S, 28S, COI) Turkey: Taşkısığı: Sakarya Basin (40.865868, 30.405434)