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.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.4689802 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9A545C3B3E52FFAE073EFFD4B16ACE54 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/666D24433E4DFFB107E1FA3FB223C8F7 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/182484687 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/6343/taxon/666D24433E4DFFB107E1FA3FB223C8F7.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
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.