MUSSELpdb

Taxonomy

Margaritiferidae

Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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freshwater bivalves
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Geography

Central America

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freshwater mussels
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Data last updated
Sun 12 April 2026

Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Chamberlainiini | Sinohyriopsis

species Sinohyriopsis schlegelii (Martens, 1861): specimens

1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Hyriopsis schlegelii — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Plazzi et al. (2011), Peng et al. (2012), ... Mabuchi et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022)
Hyriopsis schlegeli — Zhou et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), Wei et al. (2016), Sano et al. (2017), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020)
Hyriopsis “improved variety” — Shirai et al. (2010)
Sinohyriopsis schlegelii — Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2018), Cha et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Sinohyriopsis schlegeli — Zieritz et al. (2018), Sano et al. (2020)
Sinohyriopsis species — Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

Lake Biwa, Japan. Introduced to Lake Kasumigaura. (East Asia: AS3)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

MUSSELp Specimen Records

SMF_319633	ANSP_KAT_2021	ANSP_KAT_3927
ANSP_KAT_9305	SMF_14724 Ogura-ika, [ehemalige Provinz] Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto]	SMF_14717 Seta [ggü. von Ōtsu], Biwa-See, Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]
SMF_14721 Seta [ggü. von Ōtsu], Omi, Biwa-See, Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14723 Setagawa [= Oberlauf des Yodo unterhalb des Biwa-Sees] [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14722 Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto, ehemalige Provinz]
SMF_14720 Yodo, [ehemalige Provinz] Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto Fluss]

Japan

ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan
MCZ_151629 Biwa Lake, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan	SMF_14718 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14719 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]
UMMZ_50253 channel connecting with Tone-gawa, Sasakawa, Chibaken, Japan	UMMZ_50253 channel connecting with Tone-gawa, Sasakawa, Chibaken, Japan	MCZ_293512 Hikone, Lake Biwa, Honshue, Japan
USNM_127248 Japan	BMNH_1907-12-21-123 Japan	SMF_319634 Japan, Lake Biwa
MCZ_MP_319 Katada, Biwa-ko, Shiga Pref.	MNHN_MP_3944 Lac Biwaco, Province Omi	SMF_194015 Lake Biwa Shiga-Pref [Japan]
ANSP_244860 Lake Biwa, Honshu, Japan	BMNH_85-12-10-1 Lake Biwa, Japan	BMNH_85-12-10-1 Lake Biwa, Japan
MCZ_193339 Lake Biwa, Japan	UMMZ_169795 Lake Biwa, Japan	UMMZ_169795 Lake Biwa, Japan
UMMZ_220235 Lake Biwa, Katada Machi, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	MCZ_293521 Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, Honshu, Japan	UMMZ_162798 Lake Biwa, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan
FMNH_70954 Lake Biwa, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan	ANSP_48416 Ogura, Japan	ANSP_80696 Ogura, Yamashiro, Japan
FMNH_21770 Oguraike, Yamashimo, Japan	USNM_1093091 Shiga, Japan	MCZ_44634 Yamashiro, Japan

unknown

ANSP_143051
[no locality available - Asia]

GenBank Vouchers

Georeferenced GenBank Vouchers

China

Mp_2658_Hschlegelii. (16S: DQ073816, go to GenBank) Hongmen Lake, Jiangxi [China].

Japan

CIIMAR_BIV2675. (COI: MT020705, go to GenBank) Anenuma Lake, Aomori, Japan (40.7079, 141.3325).

CIIMAR_BIV2676. (28S: MT020836, COI: MT020706, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_3353_Hs21-01. (COI, COII: AB507750, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_3353_Hs21-02. (COI, COII: AB507754, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_3353_Hs07-01. (COI, COII: AB507755, COI, COII: AB507749, go to GenBank) Biwa Lake, Shiga, Japan (35.1085, 136.0693).

Mp_3353_Hs07-04. (COI, COII: AB507751, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_3353_Hs07-07. (COI, COII: AB507753, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_3353_Hs07-16. (COI, COII: AB507752, go to GenBank) ditto.

Mp_4138_Hs21-02f. (16S: LC224005, 28S: LC519070, COI: LC519006, go to GenBank) Lake Anenuma, Aomori, Japan.

Mp_4138_Hs21-05f. (16S: LC224006, 28S: LC519071, COI: LC519007, go to GenBank) ditto.

GenBank Vouchers Not Yet Georeferenced

Hs08-01. (COI: GQ360035, COI: GQ360034, go to GenBank)

HSP70. (heat shock protein 70: OP429215, go to GenBank)