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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini

genus Ptychorhynchus Simpson, 1900: species

2 available nominal genus synonyms | cladomics

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Decorative image of a representative of Ptychorhynchus murinum

Ptychorhynchus murinum (Heude, 1883)

syonymy (9 available, 11 total) | specimens (7)

Range: Described from the Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874)

syonymy (3 available, 6 total) | specimens (5 + 10 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) river, China, south into Vietnam. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, mtGenome, ND1
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Ptychorhynchus schoedei

Ptychorhynchus schoedei (Haas, 1930)

syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Hainan Island, China. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Ptychorhynchus schomburgianum

Ptychorhynchus schomburgianum (Heude, 1885)

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Reported from the Yangtze River and Hainan Island, China. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase

 
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