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 Publication Lopes-Lima et al. (2018): summarypublication summary | cladograms
 Complete CitationLopes-Lima, M., I.N. Bolotov, V.T. Do, D.C. Aldridge, M.M. Fonseca et al. 2018. Expansion and systematics redefinition of the most threatened freshwater mussel family, the Margaritiferidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 98-118. Available electronically. Attributed Nominal Species| Anodontites elongata Whelan et al., 2011‘Swainson’  of Authors.
 Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506.
 Graf et al., 2015. MPE 85: 3.
 Bolotov et al., 2016. MPE 103: 108.
 Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 178.
 Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
 Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
 Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 208.
 Combosch et al., 2017. MPE 107: 195.
 Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1.
 Huang et al., 2018. MPE 120: 302.
 Lopes-Lima et al., 2018. MPE 127: 103.
 Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4.
 Bolotov et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1.
 Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 116.
 Guerra et al., 2019. BMC Evol. Biol. 19 (229): 3.
 Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1.
 Sano et al., 2020. Plankton Benthos Res. 15(2): 101.
 Wu et al., 2020. Invert. Syst. 34: 195.
 Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1.
 Chen et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(4): Table 1.
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 Taxonomic OpinionsAnodontites elongata  Aspatharia pfeifferiana  Chambardia wahlbergi  Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829) Etheria elliptica  Gibbosula confragosa Frierson, 1928 Gibbosula crassa Wood, 1815+ Mya ponderosa Dillwyn, 1817
 + Unio (Quadrula) mansuyi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1908
 Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863) Gibbosula polysticta (Heude, 1877) = Aculamprotula polysticta+ Unio affinis Heude, 1875
 + Quadrula (Lamprotula) similaris Simpson, 1900
 Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875) Hyridella australis  Lamproscapha ensiformis  Lamprotula nanningensis Qian, Fang & He, 2015 Lampsilis cardium  Margaritifera dahurica  Margaritifera falcata  Margaritifera hembeli  Margaritifera laevis  Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Margaritifera marrianae  Margaritifera middendorffi + Margaritifera laevis Huff et al., 2004
 Mutela hargeri  Neotrigonia lamarckii  Neotrigonia margaritacea  Potomida littoralis  Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793)+ Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819
 Pseudunio homsensis  Pseudunio marocanus  Triplodon corrugatus  Unio pictorum  Velesunio ambiguus  |