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Unionidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Rafinesque, C.S. 1820. ? .

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Bivalvia
order
Unionida
family
Unionidae

Name

Synonyms
Jilinoconchidae
Homonyms
Unionidae
Common names
Freshwater Mussel in English
Freshwater Mussel in English
Maler- & dammuslinger in Danish
freshwater mussel in English
jokisimpukat in Finnish
River Mussels in English
River Mussels in English
målarmusslor in Swedish
Flussmuscheln in German
Freshwater Mussels in English
Freshwater Mussels in English
freshwater mussels in English
målarmusslor in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 52(2): 1-184.
  3. Bieler, Rüdiger, Joseph G. Carter, and Eugene V. Coan, 2010: Classification of Bivalve Families, IN Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia, vol. 52, no. 2. 113-184.
  4. Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1956). Freshwater mollusks of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from the Escambia to the Suwannee River. <em>Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences.</em> 1(3): 97-239, pls. 1-9.
  5. Gittenberger et al. (2004)
  6. Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings, 2021: A 'big data' approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 87, no. 1. 1-36.
  7. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  8. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 495 Designation., under the Plenary Powers of a type species in harmony with accustomed usage for the nominal genus Unio Philipsson, 1788 (class Pelecypoda) and validation under the same Powers of the family-group name Margaritiferidae Haas, 1940.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 17(17), 287-322 (1957)
  9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  10. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  11. Pfeiffer, J. M.; Breinholt, J. W.; Page, L. M. (2019). Unioverse: A phylogenomic resource for reconstructing the evolution of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionoida). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 137: 114-126. 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.016
  12. Ponder, Winston Frank, David R. Lindberg, and Juliet Mary Ponder, 2020: null. Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, vol. 2. xx + 870.
  13. Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526.
  14. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  15. WoRMS Editorial Board (2016) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
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