MUSSELp

MUSSELpdb

Introduction

Browse

d'basing

Search the MUSSELpdb

Taxonomy

all genera

Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


Species & Genus Richness by
Taxonomy

Geography

Summary

North America

Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

Australasia


Species Richness & Endemism by
Geography

Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

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

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 woodianaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. ellipticaZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana ellipticaLiu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta ellipticaDang 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)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodianaBogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana ellipticaProzorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodianaHe & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta woodiana Bolotov et al., 2016

‘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]
(misidentified reference to Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834)

Sinanodonta sp. 1 Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta lineage DKondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta joreti Huang et al., 2019

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

Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta pacifica Huang et al., 2019

Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Anodon pacifica Heude, 1878)

Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta woodianaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. ellipticaZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana ellipticaLiu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta ellipticaDang 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)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodianaBogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana ellipticaProzorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodianaHe & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage DBolotov et al. (2016)
Sinanodonta aff. woodiana, lineage DVikhrev et al. (2017), Bespalaya et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta lineage DKondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage HKonečný et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta joretiHuang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta pacificaHuang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

 
NSF icon MUSSEL icon
"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."