Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini | Pronodularia
66 specimens + 45 Genbank vouchers

Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 153.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 244, pl. 36, fig. 123.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1965181 (by R.I. Johnson, 1971: 85), Japan.
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis japanensis — Haas (1911)
Inversidens japanensis — Kira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), Habe (1977), Kondo (1982), ... Kongim et al. (2015), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Amaro et al. (2017), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Unio japonensis [sic] — Zhadin (1965)
Inversidens japanensis japanensis — Haas (1969)
Pronodularia japanensis — Starobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Kondo et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), ... Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Inversidena [sic] japanensis — Habe (1991)
Unio japanensis — Huang et al. (2013), Burzynski et al. (2017)
“Unio” japanensis — Zhou et al. (2016)
Pronodluaria [sic] japanensis — Wu et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2018)
Pronodularia cf. japanensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: fig. 16 [as ‘Pronodularia cf. japanensis 3]. [in part]
(reference to Unio japanensis Lea, 1859)
Pronodularia japanensis — Kondo (2023)
‘Lea’ Zhadin, 1965. Moll. USSR: 246.
(error for Unio japanensis Lea, 1859)
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis japanensis — Haas (1911)
Inversidens japanensis — Kira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), Habe (1977), Kondo (1982), ... Kongim et al. (2015), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Amaro et al. (2017), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Unio japonensis [sic] — Zhadin (1965)
Inversidens japanensis japanensis — Haas (1969)
Pronodularia japanensis — Starobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Kondo et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), ... Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Inversidena [sic] japanensis — Habe (1991)
Unio japanensis — Huang et al. (2013), Burzynski et al. (2017)
“Unio” japanensis — Zhou et al. (2016)
Pronodluaria [sic] japanensis — Wu et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2018)
Pronodularia cf. japanensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)