Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Margaritifera

species Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926): synonymy

5 specimens + 20 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

Margaritana margaritifera middendorffi Rosén, 1926

(intro'd as intra-sp. of Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758)
Rosén, 1926. Ann. Mus. Zool. Leningrad 27: 269.

Margaritana middendorffi — Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Bába (2000)
Margaritifera margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1940)
Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1969)
Margaritifera laevis — Habe (1977)
Dahurinaia middendorffi — Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Margaritifera (Dahurinaia) middendorffi — Ziuganov et al. (1994)
Margaritanopsis middendorffii — D.G. Smith (2001)
Kurilinaia middendorffi — Bogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
Margaritifera middendorffi — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2015), ... Wu et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022), Douda et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritifera (s.s.) middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera middendorffii — Vikhrev et al. (2018)
Margaritifera middendorffi middendorffi — Bogatov (2022)

Kurilinaia kamchatica Bogatov et al., 2003

Bogatov et al., 2003. Ruthenica 13(1): 48, figs. 4A, C.
Type(s): TYPE LOCALITY TYPE_LOCALITY_MP_011, Golygina River, Kamchatka Peninsula.

Kurilinaia kamchatica — Bogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
Margaritifera middendorffi — Graf (2007), IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2015)
Dahurinaia kamchatica — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Margaritifera middendorffi kamchatica — Bogatov (2022)

Margaritifera laevis ‘Haas’ of Authors

(misidentified reference to Ptychorhynchus laevis Haas, 1910)
‘Haas’ of Authors.
Huff et al., 2004. J. Moll. Studies 70: 381.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): 271.
Araujo et al., 2009. J. Moll. Studies 75(2): 97. [in part]
Takeuchi et al., 2015. Mollusc. Res. 35(4): 220. [in part]

Margaritifera middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2018)
Margaritifera (s.s.) middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera middendorffii — Vikhrev et al. (2018)

Margaritifera togakushiensis Kondo & Kobayashi, 2005

Kondo & Kobayashi, 2005. Venus 64(3-4): 136, figs. 5-8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) NSMT-MO_73707, Sakasa River at Togakushi (136°6’ E, 36°45’ N, 1200 m altitude), Nagano Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.

Margaritifera togakushiensis — Kondo & Kobayashi (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Kondo (2008), Bogan (2010), Bolotov et al. (2015), Takeuchi et al. (2015), Sano et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Sano et al. (2020)
Margaritifera (s.s.) middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera middendorffi — Araujo et al. (2016), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Margaritifera kurilensis — Bogatov (2022)

Unio (Alasm.) complanatus Middendorff, 1851

(misidentified reference to Mya complanata Lightfoot, 1786)
‘Solander’ Middendorff, 1851. Reise Nord. Ost. Sibiriens 2(1): 273, pl. 27, figs. 1-6.

Margaritana margaritifera — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Margaritana middendorffi — Zhadin (1938)
Margaritifera margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1940)
Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1969)
Kurilinaia middendorffi — Bogatov et al. (2003), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
Margaritifera middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2015)
Dahurinaia middendorffi — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana margaritifera — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Margaritana middendorffi — Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Bába (2000)
Margaritifera margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1940)
Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera middendorffi — Haas (1969)
Margaritifera laevis — Habe (1977)
Dahurinaia middendorffi — Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Margaritifera (Dahurinaia) middendorffi — Ziuganov et al. (1994)
Margaritanopsis middendorffii — D.G. Smith (2001)
Kurilinaia kamchatica — Bogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
Kurilinaia middendorffi — Bogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
“Margaritifera laevis” ** — Huff et al. (2004), Walker et al. (2006), Araujo et al. (2009), Takeuchi et al. (2015)
Margaritifera togakushiensis — Kondo & Kobayashi (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Kondo (2008), Bogan (2010), Bolotov et al. (2015), Takeuchi et al. (2015), Sano et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Sano et al. (2020)
Margaritifera middendorffi — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2015), ... Wu et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022), Douda et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritifera (s.s.) middendorffi — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Dahurinaia kamchatica — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Margaritifera middendorffii — Vikhrev et al. (2018)
Margaritifera kurilensis — Bogatov (2022)
Margaritifera middendorffi middendorffi — Bogatov (2022)
Margaritifera middendorffi kamchatica — Bogatov (2022)