Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Palaeoheterodonta > Order Unionoida > Superfamily Unionoidea

Unionidae Rafinesque, 1820

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Anodonta Link, 1807
Unio Philipsson, 1788

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Swedish: målarmusslor

Literature

additional source

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. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.

Genbank

loading

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Unionidae Rafinesque, 1820. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160333

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160333

Last modified

2012-01-04 by Philippe Bouchet

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: