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

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Publication Kondakov et al. (2020): summary
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Complete Citation

Kondakov, A.V., E.S. Konopleva, A.J. Adesanya, Y.V. Bespalaya, J.J. Braun et al. 2020. The global freshwater bivalve checklist’s extension: Freshwater occurrences and phylogenetic position of Galatea clams from West Africa (Venerida: Donacidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 35: 144-158. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)

Corbicula fluminea (O.F. Müller, 1774)

Cyrenoida floridana (Dall, 1899)

Dreissena bugensis (Andrusov, 1897)

Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)

Galatea bengoensis Dunker, 1849

Galatea congica Boettger, 1885

Galatea nux (Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927)

Galatea paradoxa (Born, 1778)
+ Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804

Galatea schwabi (Clench, 1929)
+ Egeroa paradoxa hermaphrodita Clench, 1929

Galatea tenuicula Philippi, 1848

Iphigenia laevigata (Gmelin, 1791)

Lignopholas fluminalis (Blanford, 1867)

Lithoredo abatanica Shipway, Distel & Rosenberg, 2019

Monodacna colorata (Eichwald, 1829)

Musculium indicum (Deshayes, 1854) = Sphaerium indicum

Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831)

Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830

Pisidium costulosum Connolly, 1931 = Euglesa costulosa

Pisidium viridarium Kuiper, 1956 = Euglesa viridaria

Polymesoda caroliniana (Bosc, 1801)

Profischeria centralis (Germain, 1904)

Profischeria delessertii (Bernardi, 1860)