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Publication Dai et al. (2024): summary

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Full Citation

Dai, Y.-T., Z.-G. Chen, C.-L. Hu, S. Ouyang, X.-C. Huang & X.-P. Wu. 2024. Description of a new freshwater mussel species of Pletholophus, Simpson, 1900 (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from Guangdong, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(4): 1191-1200. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Pletholophus guangzhouensis Dai et al., 2024 = Pletholophus guangzhouensis

Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu in Dai et al., 2024. Zoosyst. Evol. 100(4): 1194-1195, fig. 2, Table 1.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) 24_NCU_XPWU_PGU01, China, Guangdong, Guangzhou City, Conghua District, Liuxi River; 23°32'02"N, 113°35'03"E.

Taxonomic Opinions

Amuranodonta kijaensis Moskvicheva, 1973

Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877)

Beringiana beringiana (Middendorff, 1851)

Beringiana fukuharai San, Hattori & Kondo, 2020

Beringiana gosannensis San, Hattori & Kondo, 2020

Beringiana japonica (Clessin, 1874)

Buldowskia flavotincta (Martens, 1905)

Buldowskia iwakawai (Suzuki, 1939)

Buldowskia kamiyai San, Hattori & Kondo, 2020

Buldowskia shadini (Moskvicheva, 1973)

Buldowskia suifunica (Lindholm, 1925)

Cristaria bellua (Morelet, 1866)

Cristaria clessini (Kobelt, 1879)

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)

Cristaria truncata Dang, Thai & Pham, 1980

Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pletholophus guangzhouensis Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu, sp. nov.

Pletholophus honglinhensis Bogan, Do, Froufe & Lopes-Lima, 2023

Pletholophus reinianus (Martens, 1875)

Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
+ Unio swinhoei H. Adams, 1866
+ Cristaria inangulata Haas, 1910
+ Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834

Postolata guangxiensis Dai, Huang, Guo & Wu, 2023

Pseudocuneopsis longjiangensis Liu & Wu, 2024 = Postolata longjiangensis

Pseudocuneopsis wuana Liu & Wu, 2023

Pseudocuneopsis yangshuoensis Wu & Liu, 2023

Scabies crispata (Gould, 1843)

Sinanodonta angula (Tchang, Li & Liu, 1965)

Sinanodonta calipygos (Kobelt, 1879)

Sinanodonta lauta (Martens, 1877)

Sinanodonta lucida (Heude, 1877)

Sinanodonta pacifica (Heude, 1878)

Sinanodonta schrenkii (Lea, 1870)

Sinanodonta tumens (Haas, 1910)

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)

Trapezidens exolescens (Gould, 1843)

 
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