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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 | Chamberlainiini | Sinohyriopsis

species Sinohyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852): synonymy
     47 specimens + 17 Genbank vouchers

Unio cumingii Lea, 1852
Lea, 1852. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 54.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 240 [58], pl. 35, fig. 120.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_83897, North China.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) cumingiiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Hyriopsis) cumingiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis cumingiiPreston (1912), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), ... Chen et al. (2020), Varshney et al. (2020), Smith (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Ma et al. (2024)
Sinohyriopsis cumingiiStarobogatov (1970), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Hyriopsis (Sinohyriopsis) cumingiiHabe (1991)
Hyriopsis cumini [sic]Plazzi & Passamonti (2010)
Hyriopsis cumingiYang et al. (2013)
Sinohyriopsis cf. cumingiiLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Goncalves et al. (2022), Hata et al. (2022)

Hyriopsis goliath globosus of Authors, unknown year
Rolle, in USNM Coll. of Authors.
Type(s): MANUSCRIPT NAME USNM_187460, Tonkin.

Hyriopsis cumini Plazzi & Passamonti, 2010
Plazzi & Passamonti, 2010. MPE 57: 653.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Hyriopsis (s.s.) cumingiiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Hyriopsis) cumingiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis cumingiiPreston (1912), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), ... Chen et al. (2020), Varshney et al. (2020), Smith (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Ma et al. (2024)
Sinohyriopsis cumingiiStarobogatov (1970), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Hyriopsis (Sinohyriopsis) cumingiiHabe (1991)
Hyriopsis cumini [sic]Plazzi & Passamonti (2010)
Hyriopsis cumingiYang et al. (2013)
Sinohyriopsis cf. cumingiiLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Goncalves et al. (2022), Hata et al. (2022)

 
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