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  Superfamily Hyrioidea

Family Hyriidae

    Subfamily Hyriinae
    Subfamily Velesunioninae

Taxon Information

The Family Hyriidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Hyriidae, "75 species... South America, Australasia" (Graf, 2013).
• Hyriidae, [Neotropical, Australasian; 83 species in 17 genera worldwide] (Bogan, 2008).

Bibliography

• Graf, D.L. 2013. Patterns of freshwater bivalve global diversity and the state of phylogenetic studies on the Unionoida, Sphaeriidae, and Cyrenidae. American Malacological Bulletin 31: 135-153.
• Bogan, A.E. 2008. Global diversity of freshwater mussels (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 139-147. [Available online]

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• MUSSEL Project Web Site