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species Beringiana japonica (Clessin, 1874): specimens

3 available nominal species synonyms (5 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), ... Nagel (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Itoh et al. (2026)
Beringiana haconensis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
“Sinanodonta japonica” ** — Sano et al. (2017), Sano et al. (2020)
“Sinanodonta lauta” ** — Sano et al. (2017), Sano et al. (2022)
“Sinanodonta japonica” ** — Sano et al. (2017), Sano et al. (2020)
Sinanodonta japonica — Zieritz et al. (2018), Kano et al. (2019), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
Kunashiria japonica japonica — Bogatov (2022)
Kunashiria japonica haconensis — Bogatov (2022)

Range

Japan, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, eastern Asia. (East Asia: AS3)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Beringiana japonica

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Type Specimens

image of lot SMF_3683
SMF_3683
Hakone-See Japan
lectotype
Anodonta haconensis Ihering, 1893

image of lot SMF_3681
SMF_3681
? Hakone-See ? Japan
lectotype
Anodonta kobelti Ihering, 1893

Other Specimens by Collection | show by country

1 Specimens from ANSP

image of lot ANSP_KAT_1314
ANSP_KAT_1314

6 Specimens from MNHN

image of lot MNHN_MP_4193
MNHN_MP_4193
Aomory

image of lot MNHN_MP_4179
MNHN_MP_4179
Hirosaki

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MNHN_MP_4310
Japan

image of lot MNHN_MP_4143
MNHN_MP_4143
Japon

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MNHN_MP_4184
Japon

image of lot MNHN_MP_4303
MNHN_MP_4303
[no locality available - Asia]

2 Specimens from SMF

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SMF_3682
Japan Sumpf bei Sendai [Miyagi]

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SMF_168233
loc. paddy fields near Sagama [=Sayama] [Japan Saitama]

1 Specimens from UMMZ

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UMMZ_23482
Japan

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, ddRAD-seq: DRR361209, 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.