Anodonta vescoiana Bourguignat, 1857

Bogan, Arthur E., Al-Fanharawi, Ali Abdulhamza & Lopes-Lima, Manuel, 2021, First record of Sinanodonta woodiana and report for freshwater bivalves from Iraq (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 46, pp. 52-60 : 53

Anodonta vescoiana Bourguignat, 1857

Bourguignat (1857: 18, pl. 1, Figs. 1-2 ) listed the type locality for Anodonta vescoiana as “habite les eaux des envions de Konieh (ancienne Iconium), en Anatolie (Churchill)”. Graf and Cummings (2021) listed a single specimen from the type locality but list this species as endemic to the Tigris and Euphrates River basins, Iraq. Lopes-Lima et al. (2021) note the consensus is that the published type locality is in error and this species is from the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin. Harris (1965) listed this species from Lake Habbaniya and observed it is confined to a sandy lake bottom with clear, still, and unpolluted water. Abdul-Sahib & Abdul-Sahib (2009) reported a new record for this species from the Al-Ezz River, Iraq. Haas (1969: 354) used 1857 as the date for this species. Graf and Cumings (2021) and MolluscaBase (2021) listed the date of publication as 1856. Date of the original description was documented by Bank et al. (2019: 82) as 1857 not 1856.

Cristariini Lopes-Lima, Bogan and Froufe in Lopes-Lima et al., 2017

Sinanodonta Modell, 1945

Figures

Figure 1. Sinanodonta woodiana from Iraq. (a) Right valve of a live specimen with a total shell length 14 cm and shell height 8 cm. (b) Dorsal view of specimen with the umbo sculpture composed of parallel bars, characteristic of Sinanodonta woodiana. Total shell length was 14 cm. (Photos: Dr. Al- Fanharawi).

Figure 2. Map of the collection site and Hilla River.