Anodontites facts for kids
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| Anodontites trapesialis | |
Scientific classification  |
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| 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. Anodontites are present in South and Middle America, as far north as Mexico.
Species
The table below lists extant species:
| 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):
| Species | Authors | Formation | Country | Refs |
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| †Anodontites batesi | Woodward 1871 | Pebas Formation | Peru | |
| †Anodontites capax | Conrad 1874 | Pebas Formation | Peru | |
| †Anodontites laciranus | De Porta 1966 | Santa Teresa Formation | Colombia | |
| Anodontites trapesialis | Lamarck 1819 | Solimões Formation | Brazil |
See also
In Spanish: Anodontites para niños
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