MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Thu 22 January 2026
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae | Gibbosula
species Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863): specimens
2 available nominal species synonyms (6 total synonyms)
Recent Taxonomic Opinions
Margaritifera laosensis — Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2014), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Gibbosula laosensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), Lyubas et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), ... Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026)
Range
Eastern Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, southeastern Asia.
Map of Georeferenced Specimens
MUSSELp Specimen Records
Cambodia
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China
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Laos
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Myanmar
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BMNH_1965219. Fort Stedman, Shan States
Thailand
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unknown
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Vietnam
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Genbank Vouchers
Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers
Laos
RMBH_biv_0186_1. (16S: KC845943, 28S: KT343741, COI: JX497731, go to Genbank) Laos: Mekong River basin, Nam Long River.