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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina | Sinanodonta

species Sinanodonta elliptica (Heude, 1878): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym (4 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta woodiana elliptica — Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta woodiana elliptica — Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana — He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 — Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta elliptica — Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Douda et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta lineage D — Kondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2 — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. elliptica — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

Range

China.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Cambodia

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU165. (28S: MG595602, COI: MG463074, go to Genbank) China: Hubei, Minggang Village.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU170. (28S: MG595607, COI: MG463079, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Gan River.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU149. (28S: MG595586, COI: MG463059, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU168. (28S: MG595605, COI: MG463077, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU150. (28S: MG595587, COI: MG463065, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Nanxinxiang of the Gan River.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU151. (28S: MG595588, COI: MG463064, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU145. (28S: MG595582, COI: MG463061, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Pengze.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU147. (28S: MG595584, COI: MG463063, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Qinglan Lake.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU148. (28S: MG595585, COI: MG463058, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU163. (28S: MG595600, COI: MG463072, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU146. (28S: MG595583, COI: MG463062, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Sha Lake.

NCUBM_20180156. (ND1: MG933800, go to Genbank) Gan River (Jiangxi Province, N: 28.57° - 28.86°; E: 115.57° - 116.00°).

NCUBM_20180254. (COI: MG933740, ND1: MG933797, go to Genbank) ditto.

NCUBM_20180255. (COI: MG933741, ND1: MG933798, go to Genbank) ditto.

NCUBM_20180256. (COI: MG933742, ND1: MG933799, go to Genbank) ditto.