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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!

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species Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900): synonymy
     3 specimens + 8 Genbank vouchers

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] spinosusSimpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanusHaas (1914), Haas (1969)
Schistodesmus spinosusSimpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Zhang et al. (2004), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 115.

Shistodesmus [sic] spinosusSimpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanusHaas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011)
Schistodesmus spinosusSimpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Shistodesmus [sic] spinosusSimpson (1900)
Schistodesmus lampreyanusHaas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011)
Schistodesmus spinosusSimpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Zhang et al. (2004), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

 
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