MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
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Data last updated
Thu 22 January 2026
Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina | Schistodesmus
species Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900): synonymy
3 specimens + 8 Genbank vouchers
Synonymy
Shistodesmus spinosus Simpson, 1900
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 115 [as ‘Unio vestitus’].
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 941.
Shistodesmus [sic] spinosus — Simpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanus — Haas (1914), Haas (1969)
Schistodesmus spinosus — Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Zhang et al. (2004), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 115.
(misidentified reference to Unio vestitus Heude, 1883)
Shistodesmus [sic] spinosus — Simpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanus — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011)
Schistodesmus spinosus — Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Shistodesmus [sic] spinosus — Simpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanus — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011)
Schistodesmus spinosus — Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Zhang et al. (2004), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
