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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