Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio

species Pseudunio homsensis (Lea, 1865): specimens

7 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Margaritifera homsensis — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2017), Vikhrev et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Bashê (2022)
Pseudunio homsensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023), Nakamura et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

Syria. (North Eurasia: EU2)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Pseudunio homsensis

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Type Specimens

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MNHN_MP_0077
L’Oued el Kebir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites)
syntype
Margaritana ponderosa Pallary, 1929

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BMNH_1937-12-30-13052-13053
Le Nahr el Kabir a Tell Kalat [Syria]
paratypes
Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929

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MNHN_MP_0109
Le Nahr el Kabir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites)
syntypes
Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929

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SMF_4548
A.d. Nahr el Haroun, Syrien
paratype
Unio barroisi Drouët, 1893

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BMNH_1936-3-10-3
River Orontes
type
Unio episcopalis Tristram, 1865

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ANSP_125718
Orontes R., Lake Homs, N. Syria
type
Unio homsensis Lea, 1865

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SMF_4450
aus dem Nahr-el-Haroun (bei Zerâa, südlich von Homs), Syrien
paratype
Unio barroisi Drouët, 1893

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SMF_5156
Aus dem Nahr-el-Kebir [Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi] bei Tell Kalat [Talkalakh], Syrien [Homs]
paratype
Unio semirugata Lamarck, 1819

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4 Specimens from MNHN

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MNHN_MP_4253
Le Nahr, el Kapir a Harida (Alaouites)

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MNHN_MP_4254
Aintab, Syrie

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MNHN_MP_4258
L’Oued el Kebir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites)

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MNHN_MP_4266
Lac de Homs, Syrie

8 Specimens from SMF

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SMF_83160
Le Nahr el Kebir [Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi] bei Harida (= Aarida, Libanon?), Syrien

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SMF_283062
Libanon: Nahr al-Kabir (Süd), Straßenbrücke 4 km östlich von Tell Kalah [Talkalakh]

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SMF_283064
Syrien: Orontes [ca. 15 km] oberhalb Hama, 4 km südlich von Kafat [Al-Kafat] bei den Ruinen einer Nouria

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SMF_283594
Syrien: Orontes [ca. 15 km] oberhalb Hama, 4 km südlich von Kafat [Al-Kafat] bei den Ruinen einer Nouria

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SMF_283593
Syrien: Orontes unterhalb Sheizar [Shaizar] bei den Brücken und einer Nouria [Hama]

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SMF_283066
Syrien: Orontes unterhalb der Brücke von Sheizar [Shaizar] bei Maharde [Mhardeh] [Hama]

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SMF_283067
Syrien: Orontes unterhalb der Brücke von Sheizar [Shaizar] bei Maharde [Mhardeh] [Hama]

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SMF_283065
Türkei: Orontes, 9 km östlich Antakya [Hatay], bei der Straße nach Reyhanli

GenBank Vouchers

There are no georeferenced GenBank vouchers for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

GenBank Vouchers Not Yet Georeferenced

CIIMAR_BIV5537. (16S: MZ519053, 28S: MZ519290, COI: MZ512213, go to GenBank)

Mp_3812_HOM1. (16S: KX550092, 18S: KX550088, 28S: KX550094, 28S: KX550086, COI: KX550090, go to GenBank)

Mp_4463_BIV4859. (SRA: SRX18065925, go to GenBank)

RMBH_biv_308_2. (mtGenome: OP749929, SRA: SRX18065926, go to GenBank)