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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Mycetopodinae

genus Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835: species
     1 available nominal genus synonym (5 total synonyms) | cladomics

Mycetopoda legumen (Martens, 1888)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (57)
Range: Widespread in the Paraná System and coastal streams in Uruguay and southern Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1927
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (35)
Range: Known only from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela. (South America)

Mycetopoda siliquosa (Spix in Wagner, 1827)
syonymy (15 available, 20 total) | specimens (265 + 1 Genbank voucher)
Range: Widespread from the Paraná System, South America, north to Guatemala and Nicaragua in Central America. (Central America, South America)
Genbank sequences: 28S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase

Mycetopoda soleniformis d’Orbigny, 1835
syonymy (5 available, 5 total) | specimens (49)
Range: Paraná and Paraguay rivers, through the upper Amazon Basin of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, to Venezuela, South America. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase

Mycetopoda diluculi Pilsbry in Wanner, 1921 (Triassic)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Triassic, North America.
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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