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Strophitus

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Strophitus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophitus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2287958	https://www.gbif.org/species/2287958
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	366896	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=366896

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : Strophitus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : Strophitus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Uniomorphi	Gray 1854
-	Unioni	Gray 1854
-	Unionata	Gray 1854
order	Unionida
suborder	Unionidina	Gray 1854
superfamily	Unionoidea
family	Unionidae	Rafinesque 1820
subfamily	Unioninae	Fleming 1828
genus	Strophitus	Rafinesque 1820

Scientific Name

Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820

Name Published In

Ann. gén. Sci. Phys. (Bruxelles), 5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Strophitus	genus	belongs to Unionidae	stated without evidence	Roth and Hartman, 1998
Strophitus	genus	belongs to Strophitinae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

freshwater (based on Unionida)

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Bivalvia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Bivalvia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Roth and J. H. Hartman. 1998. Probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. PaleoBios 18(2&3):16-20

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophitus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Strophitus pascagoulaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Strophitus radiatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Strophitus undulatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Strophitus williamsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Hemiodon Swainson, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : *Hemiodon*
Strophilus Gray, 1847	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : *Strophilus*
Strophites Deshayes, 1832	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : *Strophites*
Stophites Desmarest, 1859	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : *Stophites*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1820	Strophitus Rafinesque
1998	Strophitus Roth and Hartman
2010	Strophitus Bouchet et al.

References

Roth B., Hartman J. H. (1998) Probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana, PaleoBios 18 2&3, 16-20

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). - via World Register of Marine Species

Williams, J. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Ann. gén. Sci. Phys. (Bruxelles), 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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