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  Superfamily Etherioidea

Family Mycetopodidae

    Subfamily Anodontitinae
    Subfamily Leilinae
    Subfamily Monocondylaeinae
    Subfamily Mycetopodinae

Taxon Information

The Family Mycetopodidae 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

• Mycetopodidae, "43 species... South America" (Graf, 2013).
• Mycetopodidae, [Neotropical; 39 species in 12 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