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Dreissenidae

Synonyms: Dreissensiidae; Enocephalidae; Tichogoniidae

Wikipedia Abstract

The Dreissenidae are a family of small freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks. They attach themselves to stones or to any other hard surface using a byssus. The shells of these bivalves are shaped somewhat like those of true mussels, and they also attach themselves to a hard substrate using a byssus, however this group is not at all closely related to true mussels, being more closely related to the venus clams (Veneridae).
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Genus

Amygdalia (1)
Andrusoviconcha (30)
Carinatocongeria (3)
Coelogonia (5)
Congeria (Platform mussel) (76)
Dreissena (Zebra mussel) (109)   (1)   (1)
Dreissenomya (11)
Illyricocongeria (25)
Mytilopsis (71)   (2)
Prodreissensia (2)
Rheodreissena (2)
Sinucongeria (7)
Trigonipraxis (21)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0