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
by Geography
Data last updated
Sun 12 April 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), ... Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
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), ... Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
