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species Sinanodonta elliptica (Heude, 1878): synonymy

1 specimen + 15 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

Anodon elliptica Heude, 1878

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1878. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (4): pl. 27, fig. 58.

Anodonta woodiana — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912)
Anodonta (Group of Anodonta woodiana) woodiana — Simpson (1914)
“Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. elliptica” ** — Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodiana — Haas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana elliptica — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta elliptica — Dang et al. (1980), 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), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodiana — Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana elliptica — Prozorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana — He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
“Anodonta woodiana elliptica” ** — Ouyang et al. (2015)
“Sinanodonta elliptica” ** — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. elliptica — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)
“Sinanodonta elliptica” ** — Wu et al. (2025)

Anodonta woodiana pacifica ‘Heude’ of Authors

(misidentified reference to Anodon pacifica Heude, 1878)
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Ouyang et al., 2015. J. Agri. Biotech. 23(6): Table 1. [in part]
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1 [as ‘Sinanodonta pacifica’]. [in part]

Sinanodonta cf. elliptica — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta woodiana ‘Lea’ of Authors

(misidentified reference to Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834)
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2016. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 67: 60, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Vikhrev et al., 2017. Trop. Conserv. Sci. 10: 4, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Bespalaya et al., 2018. Limnologica 69: 97, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Konečný et al., 2018. Evol. Appl. 11: Table S1 [as ‘lineage H’]. [in part]
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1. [in part]
Kashiri et al., 2024. Zoosystema 46(6): Table 1 [as ‘D’].

Sinanodonta sp. 1 — Froufe et al. (2017)
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), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta joreti Huang et al., 2019

(misidentified reference to Anodon joreti Heude, 1878)
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1.

Sinanodonta cf. elliptica — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta woodiana — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912)
Anodonta (Group of Anodonta woodiana) woodiana — Simpson (1914)
“Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. elliptica” ** — Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodiana — Haas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana elliptica — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta elliptica — Dang et al. (1980), 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), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodiana — Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana elliptica — Prozorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana — He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
“Anodonta woodiana elliptica” ** — Ouyang et al. (2015)
“Anodonta woodiana pacifica” ** — Ouyang et al. (2015)
“Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage D” ** — Bolotov et al. (2016)
“Sinanodonta aff. woodiana, lineage D” ** — Vikhrev et al. (2017), Bespalaya et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 — Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta lineage D — Kondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
“Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage H” ** — Konečný et al. (2018)
“Sinanodonta joreti” ** — Huang et al. (2019)
“Sinanodonta elliptica” ** — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2 — Huang et al. (2019)
“Sinanodonta woodiana” ** — Huang et al. (2019)
“Sinanodonta pacifica” ** — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. elliptica — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)
“Sinanodonta aff. woodiana [lineage D]” ** — Kashiri et al. (2024)
“Sinanodonta elliptica” ** — Wu et al. (2025)