{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.418794 - Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea, 1834) - Unionidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg | image_caption = ''Anodontoides ferussacianus'' | taxon = Anodontoides | authority = Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898 }}
'''''Anodontoides''''' is a [[genus]] of freshwater [[mussel]]s, an [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]] [[bivalve]] [[mollusk]] in the family [[Unionidae]], the river mussels.<ref name="WoRMS">Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2012). Anodontoides. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571665 on 2012-07-24</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Anodontoides'':<ref name=graf>{{cite web|website=The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)|publisher=MUSSEL Project Web Site|title=genus Anodontoides Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898: valid species|date=13 March 2023|last1=Graf|first1=D.L.|last2=Cummings|first2=K.S.|access-date=6 April 2023|url=https://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/fmuotwaolcb/validgen_313.html}}</ref> * ''[[Anodontoides denigratus]]'' <small>(Lea, 1852)</small> * ''[[Anodontoides ferussacianus]]'' <small>(I. Lea, 1834)</small> — Found in creeks and small rivers usually with high concentrations of [[mud]] and [[sand]].{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
''[[Anodontoides radiatus]]'' <small>(Conrad, 1834)</small> has been reclassified as a member of genus ''[[Strophitus]]'' by Smith, Johnson, Pfeiffer and Gangloff (2018).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Chase H.|last2=Johnson|first2=Nathan A.|last3=Pfeiffer|first3=John M.|last4=Gangloff|first4=Michael M.|title=Molecular and morphological data reveal non-monophyly and speciation in imperiled freshwater mussels (''Anodontoides'' and ''Strophitus'')|journal= Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=119|year=2018|pages=50–62|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.018|pmid=29074460 |bibcode=2018MolPE.119...50S }}</ref>
== Geographical range == ''Andontoides ferussacianus'', the cylindrical papershell, can be found in the [[Mississippi River]], [[Saint Lawrence River|St. Lawrence River]] and [[Great Lakes]] in shallow freshwater. They are found as far south as [[Tennessee]] and [[Arkansas]], west to [[Colorado]], and north to [[Manitoba]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mulcrone|first=Renee Sherman|year=2005|title=Anodontoides ferussacianus|url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anodontoides_ferussacianus/|access-date=31 March 2023|website=Animal Diversity Web|language=en}}</ref> ''Anodontides radiatus'' has been found in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] drainages and parts of western [[Florida]] and southern [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Chase H.|last2=Johnson|first2=Nathan A.|last3=Pfeiffer|first3=John M.|last4=Gangloff|first4=Michael M.|date=February 2018|title=Molecular and morphological data reveal non-monophyly and speciation in imperiled freshwater mussels (''Anodontoides'' and ''Strophitus'')|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790317301045|journal= Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|language=en|volume=119|pages=50–62|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.018|pmid=29074460 |bibcode=2018MolPE.119...50S |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
''Anodontoides denigratus''<ref name=graf/> or ''Anodontoides denigrata'', the Cumberland papershell, is restricted to the upper [[Cumberland River]] basin in [[Kentucky]] and Tennessee and is designated as "critically imperiled" by [[NatureServe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.121313/Anodontoides_denigrata|website=Nature Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer|title=''Anodontoides denigrata''|author=NatureServe|publisher=NatureServe|location=Arlington, Virginia|date=3 March 2023|access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref>
== Reproduction == Common hosts of [[Glochidium|glochidia]] from ''Anodontoides ferussacianus'' have been identified as [[Mottled sculpin|mottled sculpins]], [[Sea lamprey|sea lampreys]], [[Brook stickleback|brook sticklebacks]], [[White sucker|white suckers]], [[Etheostoma exile|Iowa darters]], [[Common shiner|common shiners]], [[Blacknose shiner|blacknose shiners]], [[Pimephales notatus|bluntnose minnows]], [[Pimephales promelas|fathead minnow]], [[black crappie]], [[bluegill]], [[largemouth bass]] and the [[Tippecanoe darter]].<ref>{{Cite web|website=NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer|title=''Anodontoides ferussacianus''|author=NatureServe|publisher=NatureServe|location=Arlington, Virginia|date=3 March 2023|url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1027914/Anodontoides_ferussacianus|access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref>
== Longevity == ''Anodontoides ferussacianus''- Life expectancy varies from 3 to 16 years with an average of 9 years.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
==References== <references /> {{Taxonbar|from=Q3016157}}
[[Category:Unionidae]] [[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]] [[Category:Bivalve genera]]
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