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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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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae genus Anodontites Bruguière, 1792: species
10 available nominal genus synonyms (15 total synonyms) | cladomics  Anodontites aroana H.B. Baker, 1930
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (7)
Range: Venezuela. (South America)
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|  Anodontites colombiensis Marshall, 1922
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (22)
Range: Known from the Rio Colorado and adjacent streams in northern Colombia. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
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|  Anodontites crispata Bruguière, 1792
syonymy (5 available, 8 total) | specimens (68)
Range: Widespread in tropical South America, from the Amazon and north. (South America)
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|  Anodontites cylindracea (Lea, 1838)
syonymy (4 available, 6 total) | specimens (37)
Range: Found from the Pánuco basin in San Luis Potosí, south to the Usumacinta in Chiapas, México. (Central America)
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|  Anodontites elongata (Swainson, 1823)
syonymy (9 available, 10 total) | specimens (56)
Range: Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru and Colombia; the Magdalena in Colombia; and the upper Paraguay in the Paraná Basin. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Anodontites elongatus)
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|  Anodontites ferrarisii (d’Orbigny, 1835)
syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (41)
Range: Lower Paraná System, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. (South America)
|  Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (24)
Range: Venezuela. (South America)
Genbank sequences: COI, COII
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|  Anodontites iheringi (Clessin, 1882)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (26)
Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil. (South America)
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|  Anodontites infossa H.B. Baker, 1930
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (9)
Range: Northern Venezuela. (South America)
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|  Anodontites jaliscoensis Pilsbry, 1920
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Near San Blas, Mexico. (Central America)
|  Anodontites leotaudi (Guppy, 1866)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (20)
Range: Venezuela and Trinidad. (South America)
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|  Anodontites lucida (d’Orbigny, 1835)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (46)
Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. (South America)
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|  Anodontites lurulenta (Morelet, 1849)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Rio Usumacinta, Mexico. (Central America)
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|  Anodontites montezuma (Lea, 1841)
syonymy (6 available, 11 total) | specimens (37)
Range: Lake Nicaragua and the Río Malacatoya, Nicaragua. (Central America)
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|  Anodontites moricandii (Lea, 1860)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (15)
Range: Lower São Francisco and Atlantic Streams as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (South America)
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|  Anodontites obtusa (Spix in Wagner, 1827)
syonymy (5 available, 8 total) | specimens (85)
Range: Disjunct distribution in Rio Tapajos in the Amazon Basin, the Rio San Francisco and adjacent coastal streams, and the Piracicaba in the upper Paraná, Brazil. (South America)
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|  Anodontites patagonica (Lamarck, 1819)
syonymy (21 available, 33 total) | specimens (412)
Range: Paraná and adjacent coastal basins, Brazil to Argentina. (South America)
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|  Anodontites schomburgiana (Sowerby, 1870)
syonymy (1 available, 4 total) | specimens (80)
Range: Described from British Guiana. (South America)
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|  Anodontites solenidea (Sowerby, 1867)
syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (69)
Range: From the São Francisco [MUSSELpdb] south to the Paraná in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. (South America)
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|  Anodontites tehuantepecensis (Crosse & Fischer, 1893)
syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (17)
Range: From the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, México south to Lago Maracaibo, northern Venezuela. (Central America, South America)
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|  Anodontites tenebricosa (Lea, 1834)
syonymy (7 available, 10 total) | specimens (179)
Range: Widespread in the upper Amazon, coastal streams of southern Brazil and the Paraná Basin, South America. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
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|  Anodontites tortilis (Lea, 1852)
syonymy (5 available, 5 total) | specimens (101)
Range: From Guatemala south to the Magdalena and Orinoco basins of Colombia and Venezuela. (Central America, South America)
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|  Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819)
syonymy (37 available, 68 total) | specimens (839)
Range: Widespread in South America from the Paraná System through the Amazon Basin and northern drainages, and north to Mexico. (Central America, South America)
Genbank sequences: 18S, mtGenome
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|  Anodontites trapezea (Spix in Wagner, 1827)
syonymy (8 available, 14 total) | specimens (181)
Range: Paraná and Rio São Francisco basins, west to the upper Amazon, Brazil and Bolivia to Argentina (South America)
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|  Anodontites trigona (Spix in Wagner, 1827)
syonymy (18 available, 28 total) | specimens (261)
Range: Patagonia and the Paraná Basin, Argentina, north through the Amazon to Colombia and Ecuador. (South America)
Genbank sequences: COI
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Anodontites trigonus)
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