Cupcake clams (family)
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Coarsely ribbed cup mussel ( Corbicula fluminea ) |
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The family of mussels (Corbiculidae) includes several genera of freshwater mussels , including the main genus Corbicula , which gives it its name (see mussels (genus) ). The oldest members of the family come from the Carnian ( Upper Triassic ).
Occurrence in Europe
In the Pleistocene , members of the mussel family were widespread in Central Europe. Bowls from this period can be found in the Mainz Basin and in the Netherlands . With the end of the last ice age, around 11,000 years ago, the representatives of the genus Corbicula died out in Europe. In the 20th century, however, some species, including the coarsely ribbed mussel mussel and the finely ribbed mussel mussel , both of which are often referred to as the Asian mussel mussel because of their difficulty in distinguishing them , were introduced into Europe.
Systematics
For the classification of the cup mussels in the context of the mussel system, cf. under classification of mussels . The Corbiculidae family includes the following genera:
- Batissa , Malaysia and Indonesia
- Corbicula , originally native to Central and Southeast Asia as well as Central and South Africa, since the 20th century as an introduced neozoon in America and Europe
- Corbiculina , Eastern Australia
- Cyrenodonax , South China , Vietnam
- Cyrenobatissa , North Vietnam
- Egetaria , Atlantic coast of South America
- Geloina , South Asia and Malaysia
- Neocorbicula , Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast in northern South America
- Polymesoda , Gulf of Mexico and North America's Atlantic coast
- Pseudocyrena ,parts of Central America around the Caribbean
- Solielletia , Ethiopia
- Villorita , eastern parts of South America
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Yasuo Kondo and Shin-ichi Sano: Origination of extant heteroconch families: Ecological and environmental patterns in post-Paleozoic bivalve diversification. Palaeontological Research, 13: 39-44, Tokyo 2009 doi : 10.2517 / 1342-8144-13.1.039
literature
- Michael L. Zettler et al .: The land and freshwater mollusks of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 318 p., Obotritdruck, Schwerin 2006 ISBN 3-933781-52-3
