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

species Sinanodonta pacifica (Heude, 1878): specimens

9 available nominal species synonyms (12 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta woodiana woodiana — Graf (2007)
Sinanodonta puerorum — Kantor et al. (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta woodiana pacifica — Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta woodiana pacifica — Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana — He & Zhuang (2013), Ng et al. (2016), Zieritz et al. (2016), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Zieritz et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020), Bauer et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Cummings et al. (2025)
Anodonta pacifica — Soliman et al. (2016)
Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage A — Bolotov et al. (2016), Konečný et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta woodiana, lineage B — Bolotov et al. (2016), Konečný et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta cf. woodiana, lineage A — Vikhrev et al. (2017), Bespalaya et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta aff. woodiana, lineage B — Vikhrev et al. (2017), Bespalaya et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 — Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta cf. gibba — Kondakov et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta cf. woodiana — Kondakov et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta lineage B — Kondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta joreti — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta pacifica — Huang et al. (2019), Douda et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Bolotov et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta sp. 2 — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. woodiana 1 — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

Range

Native range in eastern China and Taiwan. Widely introduced in East Asia (Japan and Myanmar to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines) as well as the USA, Central America, and Iraq.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Cambodia

China

Vietnam

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU158. (28S: MG595595, COI: MG463048, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU159. (28S: MG595596, COI: MG463049, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU160. (28S: MG595597, COI: MG463050, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU161. (28S: MG595598, COI: MG463051, go to Genbank) ditto.

16_NCU_XPWU_SU162. (28S: MG595599, COI: MG463052, go to Genbank) China: Jiangxi, Poyang Lake.

SXNU_23111806 (QS_06). (COI: PP891517, go to Genbank) Dayuan Road, Qiongshan District, Haikou City, Hainan Province.

SXNU_23111807 (QS_07). (COI: PP891518, go to Genbank) ditto.

SXNU_23111808 (QS_08). (COI: PP891519, go to Genbank) ditto.

SXNU_24042018 (LS_18). (COI: PQ387007, go to Genbank) Yanquan Street, Liandu District, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province.

Costa Rica

Mp_4365_CR1. (COI: MT484285, go to Genbank) Costa Rica: Guanacaste (10.335556 N 85.155278 W).

Mp_4365_CR2. (COI: MT484286, go to Genbank) ditto.

Mp_4365_CR3. (COI: MT484287, go to Genbank) ditto.

Japan

MHS_SLIB-02. (COI: MT020610, go to Genbank) Kasumigaura Lake, Ibaraki, Japan (36.0302, 140.3067).

MHS_SLAC-01. (COI: MT020615, go to Genbank) Kiso River , Aichi, Japan (35.3778, 136.9302).

Mp_4311_Yh1-1. (COI: LC707536, go to Genbank) Shinjo, Yamagata, Japan.

MHS_SLCB-01. (COI: MT020605, go to Genbank) Tone River , Chiba, Japan (36.0555, 139.8376).

Mp_4311_ku1-2 (S164). (COI: LC707535, go to Genbank) Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan.

Myanmar

RMBH_biv_980_1. (COI: OM698350, go to Genbank) Myanmar: a section of the Lashio River near Lashio Hot Springs, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9933, 97.7752).

RMBH_biv_980_2. (COI: OM698351, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_980_4. (COI: OM698352, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_984_1. (COI: OM698356, go to Genbank) Myanmar: oxbow lake of the Lashio River near Lashio, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9926, 97.8349).

RMBH_biv_984_2. (COI: OM698357, go to Genbank) ditto.

RMBH_biv_984_8. (COI: OM698358, go to Genbank) ditto.

Philippines

Mp_4311_Pili1. (COI: LC707539, go to Genbank) Philippines.

Taiwan

Mp_4311_seu966. (COI: LC707538, go to Genbank) Taipei, Taiwan, China.

Mp_4311_seu961. (COI: LC707537, go to Genbank) Yilan, Taiwan, China.

USA

CIIMAR_BIV02731. (COI: OR842470, go to Genbank) Franklin Pond, New Jersey, USA, Delaware basin (40.54703, -74.91608).

CIIMAR_BIV02732. (COI: OR842471, go to Genbank) ditto.

CIIMAR_BIV02733. (COI: OR842472, go to Genbank) ditto.