Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae | Gibbosula

species Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863): synonymy

24 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

Synonymy

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Unio laosensis Lea, 1863

Lea, 1863. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 15: 190.
specimen image from publicationLea, 1866. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 63, pl. 21, fig. 61.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86160, Laos Mts., Cambodia.

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera laosensis — Ziuganov et al. (1994), Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
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)

Unio laoensis ‘Lea’ of Authors

‘Lea’ of Authors.
specimen image from publicationSowerby, 1866. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 47, sp. 256.
Haas, 1910. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 42): pl. 12, caption.
(error for Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900)

Unio sula Simpson, 1900

‘Theobald’ Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 678.
‘Theobald’ Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 521.
(intro'd as syn of Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Brandt (1974)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Haas (1969)

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Margaritana woodthorpi Godwin-Austen, 1919

specimen image from publicationGodwin-Austen, 1919. Rec. Ind. Mus. 16: 203, pl. 15.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965218, Fort Stedman, Shan States.

Margaritanopsis woodthorpi — Haas (1924)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001)

Margaron (Unio) laonensis Lea, 1870

‘Lea’ Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 62.
(error for Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)

Unio sella ‘Tapparone-Canefri, in manuscript’ Haas, 1912

‘Tapparone-Canefri, in manuscript’ Haas, 1912. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): 122.
(intro'd as syn of Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)

Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912)
Gibbosula laosensis — Bolotov et al. (2019)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritanopsis woodthorpi — Haas (1924)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera laosensis — Ziuganov et al. (1994), Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
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)