Biology:Conventus

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Conventus is a genus of freshwater bivalves in the family Sphaeriidae. Species in this genus are known from Europe, North America, and South Asia, including Arctic regions.[1]

Taxonomy and history

Conventus was initially described as a subgenus of Neopisidium in 1974 by V.V. Pirogov and Yaroslav Starobogatov.[2] It has also been considered a subgenus of Euglesa.[2][3] Conventus was elevated to generic status in a 2024 article published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society based on phylogenetic analysis.[1]

Species

This genus includes the following species:[2]

  • Conventus conventus (Clessin, 1877)
  • Conventus ellisi (Dance, 1967)
  • Conventus insigne (Gabb, 1868)
  • Conventus raddei (Dybowski, 1902)
  • Conventus subconventus (Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bespalaya, Yulia V.; Vinarski, Maxim V.; Aksenova, Olga V.; Babushkin, Evgeniy S.; Gofarov, Mikhail Yu; Kondakov, Alexander V.; Konopleva, Ekaterina S.; Kropotin, Alexander V. et al. (2024). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and biogeography of the Sphaeriinae (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201 (2): 305–338. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad139. ISSN 0024-4082. OCLC 36953454. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named WoRMS
  3. Kornushin, Alexei V. (1995). "Generic and subgeneric division of pill clams (genus Pisidium s.l.) in the base of anatomical characters" (in en). Correspondentieblad NMV 282 (1): 2–5. ISSN 0923-5701. OCLC 1428064681. https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/600990. 

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