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

species Beringiana japonica (Clessin, 1874): specimens

3 available nominal species synonyms (4 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta woodiana japonica — Graf (2007)
Anodonta japonica — Kondo (2008)
Kunashiria japonica — Sayenko et al. (2009), Kantor et al. (2010)
Kunashiria haconensis — Sayenko et al. (2009), Kantor et al. (2010)
Sinanodonta woodiana — IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Beringiana japonica — Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023), Bulakhova et al. (2023), Douda et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Beringiana haconensis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta japonica — Sano et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Kano et al. (2019), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
Sinanodonta lauta — Sano et al. (2017), Sano et al. (2022)
Kunashiria japonica japonica — Bogatov (2022)
Kunashiria japonica haconensis — Bogatov (2022)

Range

Japan, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, eastern Asia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Japan

unknown

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Japan

MHS_BJST-01. (COI: MT020579, go to Genbank) Arakawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0699, 139.372).

MHS_BJST-02. (COI: MT020578, go to Genbank) Arakawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0807, 139.3655).

Mp_4311_fk144. (COI: LC707476, go to Genbank) Ibaraki, Japan.

IDEA_Shell013. (28S: LC648496, go to Genbank) Japan.

IDEA_Shell014. (28S: LC648497, go to Genbank) ditto.

IDEA_Shell015. (28S: LC648498, go to Genbank) ditto.

IDEA_shell320. (28S: LC807141, go to Genbank) Japan: Ibaraki, Kasama city.

IDEA_shell321. (28S: LC807142, go to Genbank) ditto.

IDEA_Shell064. (28S: LC648537, go to Genbank) Japan:Miyagi, Kurihara city, Tsukidate.

MHS_BJIT-01. (COI: MT020581, go to Genbank) Kitakami River, Iwate, Japan (39.0069, 141.1104).

MHS_BJMG-01. (COI: MT020582, go to Genbank) Kitakami River, Miyagi, Japan (38.7591, 141.063).

MHS_BJMG-02. (COI: MT020583, go to Genbank) ditto.

MHS_BJFK-01. (COI: MT020580, go to Genbank) Mano River, Fukushima, Japan (37.7027, 140.9355).

Mp_4138_FUKUNUMA_22. (16S: LC223966, 28S: LC519075, COI: LC519017, go to Genbank) Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan.

MHS_SJapSName. (COI: MT020577, go to Genbank) Namekawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0411, 139.2229).

MHS_SJSaitNam4. (28S: MT020803, COI: MT020576, go to Genbank) ditto.