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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae genus Anodontites Bruguière, 1792: species
9 available nominal genus synonyms (13 total synonyms) | cladomics  Anodontites aroana H.B. Baker, 1930
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (7)
Range: Venezuela. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Anodontites carinata (Dunker, 1858)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (5)
Range: Rio Magdalena, Colombia east into Venezuela. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  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 (6 available, 9 total) | specimens (70)
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: States of Chiapas and Vera Cruz, Mexico. (Central America)
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| Anodontites depexa (Martens, 1900)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Guatemala. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  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 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)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Anodontites montezuma (Lea, 1841)
syonymy (5 available, 10 total) | specimens (37)
Range: Lake Nicaragua, 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)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  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 pittieri Marshall, 1922
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Venezuela. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  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 (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (17)
Range: Mexico and Central America. (Central 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 (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Guayanas, Venezuela and Colombia north to Costa Rica. (Central America, South America)
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|  Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819)
syonymy (38 available, 69 total) | specimens (842)
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 (19 available, 29 total) | specimens (352)
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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