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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Nodularia

species Nodularia nipponensis (Martens, 1877): synonymy

50 specimens + 19 Genbank vouchers

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Unio nipponensis Martens, 1877

Martens, 1877. S.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 1877: 119.
Martens, 1905. Zool. Jb., Jena, Suppl. 8: 58.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ZMB_28142, Mukosima, Tokio, Japan.

Nodularia (s.s.) douglasiae var. nipponensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) nipponensisMartens (1905)
Nodularia (s.s.) douglasiae nipponensisHaas (1911)
Lymnium douglasiae nipponensisKira (1954)
Unio douglasiae nipponensisKira (1959), Haas (1969), Kondo (1997), Kondo (2008)
Unio douglasisae nipponensisKuroda (1963)
Unio douglasiaeHabe (1977), Habe (1991)
Nodularidia douglasiaeHe & Zhuang (2013)
Nodularia douglasiae nipponensisSano et al. (2017), Kano et al. (2019)
Nodularia nipponensisLiu et al. (2017), Klishko et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Choi et al. (2020), Sayenko et al. (2021), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025)

Nodularia douglasiae biwae Sano et al., 2017

‘Kobelt’ of Authors.
Sano et al., 2017. J. Wat. Res. Prot. 9: Table 2.
(misidentified reference to Unio biwae Kobelt, 1879)

Nodularia douglasiae Fukata & Iigo, 2019

‘Griffith & Pidgeon’ of Authors.
Fukata & Iigo, 2019. mtDNA B 4(2): 3488. [in part]
Sano et al., 2020. Plankton Benthos Res. 15(2): Table 1. [in part]
Choi et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: 6, fig. 3A [as ‘Clade B’]. [in part]
Kim et al., 2021. mtDNA B 6(1): 80. [in part]
Pavan-Kumar et al., 2022. Mol. Biol. Rep. 49: Table S1.
Dai et al., 2024. Invert. Syst. 38(6): Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio douglasiae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Nodularia douglasiaeWu et al. (2024)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) douglasiae var. nipponensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) nipponensisMartens (1905)
Nodularia (s.s.) douglasiae nipponensisHaas (1911)
Lymnium douglasiae nipponensisKira (1954)
Unio douglasiae nipponensisKira (1959), Haas (1969), Kondo (1997), Kondo (2008)
Unio douglasisae nipponensisKuroda (1963)
Unio douglasiaeHabe (1977), Habe (1991)
Nodularidia douglasiaeHe & Zhuang (2013)
Nodularia douglasiae biwaeSano et al. (2017)
Nodularia douglasiae nipponensisSano et al. (2017), Kano et al. (2019)
Nodularia nipponensisLiu et al. (2017), Klishko et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Choi et al. (2020), Sayenko et al. (2021), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025)
Nodularia douglasiaeFukata & Iigo (2019), Sano et al. (2020), Kim et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024)
Nodularia douglasiae Clade BChoi et al. (2020)

 
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