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Hyriidae
Sign in to saveHyriidae is a taxonomic family of pearly freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Unionida. This family is native to South America, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Like all members of that order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium).
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderUnionida
- FamilyHyriidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 154
- With media
- 26
- Family
- Hyriidae
- Collections
- NMV, AUM, CM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Guyana, Brazil, Argentina
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Subfamilies and genera
- Hyriinae
- Cucumerunioninae
- Velesunioninae
- References
Hyriidae is a taxonomic family of pearly freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Unionida. This family is native to South America, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Like all members of that order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium).
The classification recognized by Banarescu (1995) uses three subfamilies. This family contains eighteen genera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyriidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.