Anodontites

Anodontites
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–present 70.6–0 Ma[1]
Anodontites trapesialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Mycetopodidae
Subfamily: Anodontitinae
Genus: Anodontites

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

The table below lists extant species:[4]

Scientific nameAuthorityDistribution
Anodontites aroana H.B. Baker, 1930
Anodontites carinata Dunker, 1858 Widespread distribution from Guyana west to the Magdalena, Colombia.
Anodontites colombiensis Marshall, 1922 Known from the Rio Colorado and adjacent streams in northern Colombia.
Anodontites crispata Bruguière, 1792 Widespread in tropical South America, north of the Paraná Basin.
Anodontites cylindracea Lea, 1838 States of Chiapas and Vera Cruz, Mexico, Central America.
Anodontites depexus Martens, 1900 Guatemala, Central America.
Anodontites elongata Swainson, 1823 Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru and Colombia; the Magdalena in Colombia; and the upper Paraguay in the Paraná Basin.
Anodontites ferrarisii d’Orbigny, 1835 Lower Paraná System.
Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927 Venezuela.
Anodontites iheringi Clessin, 1882 Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil.
Anodontites inaequivalva Lea, 1868 Lake Nicaragua, Central America.
Anodontites infossus H.B. Baker, 1930 Northern Venezuela.
Anodontites leotaudi Guppy, 1866 Venezuela and Trinidad.
Anodontites lucida d’Orbigny, 1835 Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
Anodontites moricandii Lea, 1860 Lower São Francisco and Atlantic Streams as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Anodontites obtusa Spix & Wagner, 1827

Disjunct distribution in Rio Tapajos in the Amazon Basin, the Rio San Francisco and adjacent coastal streams, and the Piracicaba in the upper Paraná, South America.

Anodontites patagonica Lamarck, 1819 Widespread in the Paraná and adjacent coastal basins.
Anodontites pittieri Marshall, 1922 Venezuela.
Anodontites schomburgianus Described from British Guiana.
Anodontites solenidea Sowerby, 1867 From the São Francisco south to the Paraná in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
Anodontites tehuantepecensis Crosse & Fischer, 1893 Mexico and Central America.
Anodontites tenebricosa Lea, 1834 Widespread upper Amazon, coastal streams of southern Brazil and the Paraná Basin, South America.
Anodontites tortilis Lea, 1852 Guyanas, Venezuela and Colombia north to Costa Rica.
Anodontites trapesialis Lamarck, 1819 Widespread in South America from the Paraná System through the Amazon Basin and northern drainages, and north to Mexico.
Anodontites trapezea Spix & Wagner, 1827 Paraná and Rio São Francisco basins, west to the upper Amazon, South America.
Anodontites trigona Spix & Wagner, 1827

Three species are known from fossils (two exclusively so):[1]

  • †Anodontites batesi
  • †Anodontites capax
  • Anodontites trapesialis

References

  1. 1 2 "Anodontites Bruguière 1792". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Anodontites Bruguière, 1792". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "The Mussel Project". Retrieved August 8, 2017.
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