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.
HOLOTYPE USNM_86160, Laos Mts., Cambodia.

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritana (Group of M. margaritifera) laosensis — Simpson (1914)
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), ... Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020), Kashiri et al. (2024)
Gibbosula laosensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), Lyubas et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), ... Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Li et al. (2026)

Unio laoensis ‘Lea’ of Authors

(error for Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)
‘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.

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900)

Unio sula Simpson, 1900

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

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Brandt (1974)
Margaritana (Group of M. margaritifera) laosensis — Simpson (1914)
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.
HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965218, Fort Stedman, Shan States.

Margaritanopsis woodthorpi — Haas (1924)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001)
Gibbosula laosensis woodthorpi — Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023)

Margaron (Unio) laonensis Lea, 1870

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

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

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

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana laosensis — Simpson (1900)
Margaritanopsis laosensis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritana (Group of M. margaritifera) laosensis — Simpson (1914)
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), ... Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020), Kashiri et al. (2024)
Gibbosula laosensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), Lyubas et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), ... Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Gibbosula laosensis woodthorpi — Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023)