Anodontites
| Anodontites Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–present
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| Anodontites trapesialis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Mycetopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Anodontitinae |
| Genus: | Anodontites Bruguière 1792 |
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Anodontites is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Mycetopodidae.[2] Anodontites are present in South and Middle America, as far north as Mexico.[3]
Species
[edit]The table below lists extant species:[4]
| Scientific name | Authority | Distribution |
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| A. aroana | H.B. Baker 1930 | |
| A. carinata | Dunker 1858 | Widespread distribution from Guyana west to the Magdalena River, Colombia |
| A. colombiensis | Marshall 1922 | Known from the Colorado River and adjacent streams in northern Colombia |
| A. crispata | Bruguière 1792 | Widespread in tropical South America, north of the Paraná Basin |
| A. cylindracea | Lea 1838 | Chiapas and Veracruz, Mexico |
| A. depexus | Martens 1900 | Guatemala |
| A. elongata | Swainson 1823 | Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru and Colombia; the Magdalena River in Colombia; and the upper Paraguay in the Paraná Basin |
| A. ferrarisii | d'Orbigny 1835 | Lower Paraná system |
| A. guanarensis | Marshall 1927 | Venezuela |
| A. iheringi | Clessin 1882 | Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil |
| A. inaequivalva | Lea 1868 | Lake Nicaragua |
| A. infossus | H.B. Baker 1930 | Northern Venezuela |
| A. leotaudi | Guppy 1866 | Venezuela and Trinidad |
| A. lucida | d'Orbigny 1835 | Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina |
| A. moricandii | Lea 1860 | Lower São Francisco and Atlantic streams as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| A. obtusa | Spix & Wagner 1827 | Disjunct distribution in the Tapajos River in the Amazon Basin, the São Francisco River and adjacent coastal streams, and the Piracicaba in the upper Paraná basin |
| A. patagonica | Lamarck 1819 | Widespread in the Paraná and adjacent coastal basins. |
| A. pittieri | Marshall 1922 | Venezuela |
| A. schomburgianus | Sowerby 1870 | Described from British Guyana |
| A. solenidea | Sowerby 1867 | From the São Francisco south to the Paraná in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina |
| A. tehuantepecensis | Crosse & Fischer 1893 | Mexico and Central America |
| A. tenebricosa | Lea 1834 | Widespread upper Amazon, coastal streams of southern Brazil and the Paraná Basin, South America |
| A. tortilis | Lea 1852 | Guyanas, Venezuela and Colombia, north to Costa Rica |
| A. trapesialis | Lamarck 1819 | Widespread in South America from the Paraná System through the Amazon Basin and northern drainages, and north to Mexico |
| A. trapezea | Spix & Wagner 1827 | Paraná and Rio São Francisco basins, west to the upper Amazon |
| A. trigona | Spix & Wagner 1827 |
Four species are known from fossils (three exclusively so):[1]
| Species | Authors | Formation | Country | Refs |
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| †Anodontites batesi | Woodward 1871 | Pebas Formation | Peru | [5] |
| †Anodontites capax | Conrad 1874 | Pebas Formation | Peru | [6] |
| †Anodontites laciranus | De Porta 1966 | Santa Teresa Formation | Colombia | [7] |
| Anodontites trapesialis | Lamarck 1819 | Solimões Formation | Brazil | [8] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Anodontites Bruguière 1792". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Anodontites Bruguière, 1792". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ Marshall, William B. (1932). "Anodontites: A genus of South and Central American and Mexican pearly fresh-water mussels". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 79: article 23.
- ^ "The Mussel Project". Retrieved August 8, 2017.
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ Acosta & Ulloa, 2002, p.64
- ^ Fossilworks
Bibliography
[edit]- Acosta Garay, Jorge; Ulloa Melo, Carlos E. (2002), Geología de la Plancha 227 La Mesa - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1–80
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