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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini

genus Parvasolenaia Huang & Wu in Huang et al., 2019: synonymy
     3 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Parvasolenaia Huang et al., 2019
Huang & Wu in Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: 57.
Type species: Mycetopus rivularis Heude, 1877 (orig. desig.) = Parvasolenaia rivularis

Paravasolenaia Pfeiffer et al., 2019
‘Huang & Wu’ Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 123.
(error for Parvasolenaia Huang et al., 2019)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

SolenaiaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), Habe (1977), ... Zieritz et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020)
ParvasolenaiaHuang et al. (2019), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

 
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