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Bivalvia | Unionoida | 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 laosensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensisHaas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensisHaas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera laosensisZiuganov 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 laosensisLopes-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. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

Unio laoensis Sowerby, 1866

‘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 laosensisSimpson (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 laosensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensisHaas (1912), Brandt (1974)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensisHaas (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 woodthorpiHaas (1924)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensisHaas (1969)
Margaritanopsis laosensisBrandt (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 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 laosensisHaas (1912)
Gibbosula laosensisBolotov et al. (2019)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana laosensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritanopsis laosensisHaas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritanopsis woodthorpiHaas (1924)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensisHaas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritifera laosensisZiuganov 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 laosensisLopes-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. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

 
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