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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Contradentini | Lens

species Lens novoselovi (Konopleva, Bolotov, Spitsyn, Kondakov, Gofarov & Vikhrev, 2019): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Contradens sp. 7 — Bolotov et al. (2017)
Contradens sp. “Vieng Phou Kha” — Bolotov et al. (2017), Konopleva et al. (2019)
Contradens sp. ‘Vieng Phou Kha’ — Bolotov et al. (2018)
Contradens novoselovi — Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Contradens sp. 'Vieng Phou Kha' — Huang et al. (2019)
Contradens sp. (Laos) — Zieritz et al. (2020)
Lens novoselovi — Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Zieritz et al. (2024)

Range

Mekong Basin, Laos.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Laos

RMBH_biv_202_2. (16S: KY561645, 28S: KY561662, COI: KY561630, go to Genbank) Laos: Mekong River basin, a tributary of Nam Fa River near Vieng Phou Kha.

RMBH_biv_203_4. (16S: KY561647, 28S: KY561664, COI: KY561632, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_203_5. (16S: KY561646, 28S: KY561663, COI: KY561631, go to Genbank) ditto.