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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Cuneopsis

species Cuneopsis rufescens (Heude, 1874): synonymy

4 specimens + 6 Genbank vouchers

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Unio rufescens Heude, 1874

Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 113.
specimen image from publicationHeude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 1, fig. 2.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3394, Riviere de Fou-Tchou (Kiang Si).

Cuneopsis rufescensSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Unio rufescensHe & Zhuang (2013)
Cuneopsis rufestcens [sic]Ouyang et al. (2015)

Cuneopsis rufestcens Ouyang et al., 2015

Ouyang et al., 2015. J. Agri. Biotech. 23(6): Table 1.
(reference to Unio rufescens Heude, 1874)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cuneopsis rufescensSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Unio rufescensHe & Zhuang (2013)
Cuneopsis rufestcens [sic]Ouyang et al. (2015)

 
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