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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Schistodesmus

species Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Schistodesmus spinosus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Zhou et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Schistodesmus lampreyanus — IUCN (2011)

Range

Yangtze River, China.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

China

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU135. (28S: MG595572, COI: MG463045, go to Genbank) China: Hunan, Yueyang.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU136. (28S: MG595573, COI: MG463046, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU137. (28S: MG595574, COI: MG463044, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU138. (28S: MG595575, COI: MG463047, go to Genbank) ditto.

21-NCU-XPWU-SSF01. (mtGenome: MZ571511, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Poyang Lake.

NCUBM_20180248. (COI: MG933734, ND1: MG933791, go to Genbank) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China.

Mp_2658_Sspinosus. (16S: DQ073823, go to Genbank) Poyang Lake, Jiangxi [China].

Mp_2735_Ssp. (16S: AY297468, go to Genbank) Qing Lan Lake, Jiangxi, China.