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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina | Cuneopsis
species Cuneopsis rufescens (Heude, 1874): synonymy
4 specimens + 6 GenBank vouchers
Synonymy
Unio rufescens Heude, 1874
Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 113.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 1, fig. 2.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3394, Riviere de Fou-Tchou (Kiang Si).
Cuneopsis rufescens — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Unio rufescens — He & Zhuang (2013)
Cuneopsis rufestcens [sic] — Ouyang et al. (2015)
Cuneopsis rufestcens Ouyang et al., 2015
(reference to Unio rufescens Heude, 1874)
Ouyang et al., 2015. J. Agri. Biotech. 23(6): Table 1.
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Cuneopsis rufescens — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Unio rufescens — He & Zhuang (2013)
Cuneopsis rufestcens [sic] — Ouyang et al. (2015)
