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Anodontites sp.


Family: Mycetopodidae
Order: Unionida
Class: Bivalvia
Phylum / Division: Mollusca
Kingdom: Animalia

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Anodontites is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Mycetopodidae. Anodontites are present in South and Middle America, as far north as Mexico.

Species: The table below lists extant species:
Scientific nameAuthorityDistribution
A. aroana]]H.B. Baker 1930}}
A. carinata]]Dunker 1858}}Widespread distribution from Guyana west to the Magdalena River, Colombia
A. colombiensis]]Marshall 1922}}Colorado River]] and adjacent streams in northern Colombia
A. crispata]]Bruguière 1792}}Widespread in tropical South America, north of the Paraná Basin
A. cylindracea]]Lea 1838}}Chiapas and Veracruz, Mexico
A. depexus]]Martens 1900}}Guatemala
A. elongata]]Swainson 1823}}Paraguay]] in the Paraná Basin
A. ferrarisii]]d´Orbigny 1835}}Lower Paraná system
A. guanarensis]]Marshall 1927}}Venezuela
A. iheringi]]Clessin 1882}}Paraná and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil
A. inaequivalva]]Lea 1868}}Lake Nicaragua
A. infossus]]H.B. Baker 1930}}Northern Venezuela
A. leotaudi]]Guppy 1866}}Venezuela and Trinidad
A. lucida]]d´Orbigny 1835}}Paraná]] and adjacent coastal streams in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
A. moricandii]]Lea 1860}}São Francisco]] and Atlantic streams as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A. obtusa]]Spix & Wagner 1827}}Piracicaba]] in the upper Paraná basin
A. patagonica]]Lamarck 1819}}Widespread in the Paraná and adjacent coastal basins.
A. pittieri]]Marshall 1922}}Venezuela
A. schomburgianus]]Sowerby 1870}}Described from British Guyana
A. solenidea]]Sowerby 1867}}From the São Francisco south to the Paraná in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina
A. tehuantepecensis]]Crosse & Fischer 1893}}Mexico and Central America
A. tenebricosa]]Lea 1834}}Widespread upper Amazon, coastal streams of southern Brazil and the Paraná Basin, South America
A. tortilis]]Lea 1852}}Guyanas, Venezuela and Colombia, north to Costa Rica
A. trapesialis]]Lamarck 1819}}Widespread in South America from the Paraná System through the Amazon Basin and northern drainages, and north to Mexico
A. trapezea]]Spix & Wagner 1827}}Paraná and Rio São Francisco basins, west to the upper Amazon
A. trigona]]Spix & Wagner 1827}}


Four species are known from fossils (three exclusively so):

SpeciesAuthorsFormationCountryRefs
Anodontites batesiWoodward 1871}}Pebas FormationPeru
Anodontites capaxConrad 1874}}Pebas FormationPeru
Anodontites laciranusDe Porta 1966}}Santa Teresa Formation]]Colombia
Anodontites trapesialisLamarck 1819}}Solimões FormationBrazil

Source: Wikipedia, article Anodontites sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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140605702/04/2021ArgentinaBuenos AiresCarlos Keen, LujánDesalvo T. Benjamin
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Anodontites sp. – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 19/09/2026.