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Unionoida cum Grano Salis
Family MARGARITIFERIDAE
![Global Distribution of the Margaritiferidae. The thin purple wedge of the pie depicts the relative species diversity of the family (12 of 842).](../../../graphics/grano_salis_graphics/previous/taxon_map_margaritiferidae.png)
Global Distribution of the Margaritiferidae. The thin purple wedge of the pie depicts the relative species diversity of the family (17 of 927).
Family Margaritiferidae
Subfamily Margaritiferinae
Subfamily Gibbosulinae |
The Margaritiferidae consists of only 17 recognized species, and although the distribution of the family is patchy, it is found in Nearctica, Palearctica and Indotropica. Various genus-level classifications have been used over the years, and until recently we have regarded the family to represent a single genus. New phylogenetic information now divides the species among four genera.
Superfamily UNIONOIDEA Rafinesque, 1820
Family MARGARITIFERIDAE Haas, 1940
Subfamily MARGARITIFERINAE s.s.
Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816
- Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
- Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
- Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
- Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
- Margaritifera marrianae R.I. Johnson, 1983
- Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
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Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912
- Margaritifera monodonta (Say, 1829)
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Pseudunio Haas, 1910
- Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)
- Margaritifera homsensis (Lea, 1865)
- Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918)
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Subfamily Gibbosulinae Bogan, Bolotov, Froufe & Lopes-Lima, 2018
Gibbosula Simpson, 1900
- Gibbosula crassa (Wood, 1815)
- Gibbosula confragosa Frierson, 1928
- Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863)
- Gibbosula nanningensis Qian, Fang & He, 2015
- Gibbosula polysticta (Heude, 1877)
- Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875)
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