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Anodontia Link 1807

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Unité Taxonomie et Collections, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) cosel @ mnhn. fr

Description

Genus Anodontia Link, 1807

TYPE SPECIES. — Anodontia alba Link, 1807, by original designation.

SPECIES INCLUDED. — 25 species (Taylor & Glover 2005), worldwide.

DIAGNOSIS. — Shells small to very large, equivalve, inequilateral, very tumid to globose, thin to moderately thick, circular to subcircular, with more or less protruding umbones. Hinge plate very narrow, toothless, ligament plate horizontal to shell margin or slanting towards the interior of the valve. Surface smooth, with more or less pronounced irregular growth lines and stages. Anterior adductor scar small, with comparatively short and small diverging part.

REMARKS

A detailed worldwide revision of the genus has recently been published by Taylor & Glover (2005). The subgeneric classification followed here is also treated therein.

Notes

Published as part of Cosel, Rudo von, 2006, Taxonomy of tropical West African bivalves. VI. Remarks on Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia), with description of six new genera and eight new species, pp. 805-851 in Zoosystema 28 (4) on page 836, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689802

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Lucinoida
Family
Lucinidae
Genus
Anodontia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Anodontia Link, 1807 sec. Cosel, 2006

References

  • TAYLOR J. D. & GLOVER E. A. 2005. - Cryptic diversity of chemosynthetic bivalves: a systematic revision of worldwide Anodontia (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 3 (3): 281 - 338.