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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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genus Amuranodonta Moskvicheva, 1973: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Amuranodonta Moskvicheva, 1973
Moskvicheva, 1973. Zool. Zhur. 52(6): 830.
Type species: Amuranodonta kijaensis Moskvicheva, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Amuranodonta kijaensis

Amurbuldowskia Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996. Zool. Zhur. 75: 973.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Amurbuldowskia Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996)
Type species: Buldowskia (Amuranodonta) boloniensis Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987 (original designation) = Amuranodonta kijaensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Amuranodonta — Moskvicheva (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010), ... Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Buldowskia (Amuranodonta) — Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998)
Anemina (Buldowskia) — Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta — Graf (2007)
Anemina — IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), WoRMS (2017)
Buldowskia — Bogatov (2022)

 
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