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

species Buldowskia iwakawai (Suzuki, 1939): specimens

1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta woodiana japonica — Graf (2007)
Anemina arcaeformis — Kondo (2008), He & Zhuang (2013), Sano et al. (2017), Sano et al. (2020)
Kunashiria iwakawai — Sayenko et al. (2009), Kantor et al. (2010), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Beringiana iwakawai — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Buldowskia iwakawai — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Kunashiria japonica iwakawai — Bogatov (2022)

Range

Japan and Sakhalin Island, Russia. Also, South Korea.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Japan

OMNH_Mo_39113_39. (COI: MT020550, go to Genbank) Gamo River, Tottori, Japan (35.5654, 134.3033).

Mp_4138_fk90f. (16S: LC519049, 28S: LC519083, COI: LC519026, go to Genbank) Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan.

IDEA_Shell055. (28S: LC648530, go to Genbank) Japan:Fukui, Tsuruga city, Izumi.

IDEA_Shell056. (28S: LC648531, go to Genbank) ditto.

IDEA_Shell085. (28S: LC648549, go to Genbank) Japan:Shimane, Matsue city.

IDEA_Shell067. (28S: LC648538, go to Genbank) Japan:Toyama, Kamiichi Town.

IDEA_Shell071. (28S: LC648539, go to Genbank) ditto.

IDEA_Shell086. (28S: LC648550, go to Genbank) Japan:Tsuruga city, Nakaikemi wetland.

Mp_4138_fk63f. (16S: LC224014, 28S: LC519082, COI: LC519025, go to Genbank) Kagawa, Japan.

OMNH_Mo_39111_10. (COI: MT020549, go to Genbank) Kaji River, Niigata, Japan (37.9444, 139.3678).

MHS_A4YG04. (COI: MT020543, go to Genbank) Mogami River, Yamagata, Japan (38.7713, 140.3162).

MHS_AASIM1. (COI: MT020527, go to Genbank) Ohara River, Simane, Japan (35.232, 132.5101).

MHS_AAfk080. (28S: MT020806, COI: MT020523, go to Genbank) Omono River, Akita, Japan (39.3649, 140.5384).

MHS_AASIM2. (COI: MT020528, go to Genbank) Sada River, Simane, Japan (35.4781, 133.0104).

MHS_AAfk104. (COI: MT020524, go to Genbank) Shinano River, Niigata, Japan (37.573, 138.881).

South Korea

NNIBR_IV29273. (28S: MT020807, COI: MT020542, go to Genbank) Seomjin River, Imsil-gun, South Korea (35.701, 127.2841).