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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio

species Unio gontierii Bourguignat, 1856: specimens

11 available nominal species synonyms (19 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Unio crassus gontieri — Graf (2007), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017)
Crassiana crassa sieversi — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana gregorii — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana mengrelica [sic] — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana musiva gontieri — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana sobriewskii — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana stevenianiformis — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium colchicum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium koutaisianum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium raddei — Kantor et al. (2010)
Unio stepanoffi — Kantor et al. (2010)
Unio crassus — IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2018)
Unio (Crassiana) musivus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) mengrelicus [sic] — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) gregorii — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) sobrievskii [sic] — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) stevenianiformis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) byzantinus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) colchicus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) koutaisiana — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) raddei — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio gontierii — Lopes-Lima et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024)

Range

Streams draining to the Black and Caspian Seas in Ukraine to Georgia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Georgia

RMBH_biv_479_1. (COI: OR841920, go to Genbank) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184).

RMBH_biv_479_3. (COI: OR841921, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_479_4. (COI: OR841922, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_479_5. (COI: OR841923, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_479_6. (COI: OR841924, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV1534. (COI: OR841925, mtGenome: OR912550, SRA: SRR26935086, go to Genbank) Inkiti (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.179089, 40.319573).

CIIMAR_BIV1535. (COI: OR841926, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_1. (COI: OR841927, go to Genbank) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068).

RMBH_biv_239_10. (COI: OR841928, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_11. (COI: OR841929, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_12. (COI: OR841930, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_2. (COI: OR841931, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_5. (COI: OR841932, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_6. (COI: OR841933, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_7. (COI: OR841934, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_8. (COI: OR841935, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_239_9. (COI: OR841936, go to Genbank) ditto.