Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Palaeoheterodonta > Order Unionida > Superfamily Unionoidea > Family Unionidae > Subfamily Unioninae > Tribe Anodontini > Genus Anodonta

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anodonta*	Lamarck, 1799	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Mytilus cygnea*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: dammusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: brede zwanrmossel; zwanemossel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: swan mussel

German: Große Teichmuschel; Schwanenmuschel; Weiher-Muschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: större dammussla

Literature

additional source	Froufe, E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Riccardi, N.; Zaccara, S.; Vanetti, I.; Lajtner, J.; Teixeira, A.; Varandas, S.; Prié, V.; Zieritz, A.; Sousa, R.; Bogan, A. E. (2017). Lifting the curtain on the freshwater mussel diversity of the Italian Peninsula and Croatian Adriatic coast. Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(14): 3255-3274.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234103

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/38998761-04c0-439e-99c4-e2e6e078c7a7