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species Ensidens spiculus Pfeiffer, Graf, Cummings & Page, 2021: synonymy

13 specimens + 11 Genbank vouchers

Synonymy

Ensidens sagittarius ‘Lea’ of Authors

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Muanta et al., 2019. J. Moll. Studies 85(2): 227 [as ‘Clade B4’].
Konopleva et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Konopleva et al., 2019. Ecologica Montenegrina 24: Appendix 1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Zieritz et al., 2020. Biodivers. Conserv. 29: 2242 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
(misidentified reference to Unio sagittarius Lea, 1856)

Ensidens spiculus — Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Ensidens sp. 1 — Wu et al. (2021)

Ensidens spiculus Pfeiffer et al., 2021

Pfeiffer et al., 2021. Invert. Syst. 35: 448, figs. 1, 9, 29-30, 32.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) UF_564752, Mekong River, along Rt. 211, Sangkhom District, Nong Khai Province, Thailand.

Ensidens sp. ‘Thai’ — Bolotov et al. (2020)
Ensidens spiculus — Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2 — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Huang et al. (2019), Zieritz et al. (2020)
Ensidens sagittarius B4 — Muanta et al. (2019)
Ensidens sp. ‘Thai’ — Bolotov et al. (2020)
Ensidens spiculus — Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023)
Ensidens sp. 1 — Wu et al. (2021)

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