Biology:Arcidens

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Short description: Genus of bivalves

Arcidens
Arcidens confragosus.JPG
A live individual of Arcidens confragosus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Tribe: Anodontini
Genus: Arcidens
(Simpson, 1900)[1]

Arcidens is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.[1][2]

Species

Species within the genus Arcidens include:[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "genus Arcidens Simpson, 1900: valid species". MUSSELpdb. The Mussel Project. https://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/fmuotwaolcb/validgen_287.html. 
  2. Inoue, Kentaro; McQueen, Alyssa L.; Harris, John; Berg, David (July 2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and morphological variation reveal recent speciation in freshwater mussels of the genera Arcidens and Arkansia (Bivalvia: Unionidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112 (3): 535-545. doi:10.1111/bij.12282. 

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