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Publication Chen et al. (2025): summary

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Chen, Z.-G., Y.-T. Dai, H. Chen, H.-F. Hu, J. Jiang et al. 2025. Gibbosula sinensis, a new species on the verge of extinction of the world’s most threatened freshwater mussel family Margaritiferidae Henderson, 1929 from China (Bivalvia, Palaeoheterodonta, Unionida). Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 1613-1620. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodontites elongata Whelan et al., 2011 = Tamsiella schroeteriana

‘Swainson’ of Authors.
Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506.
Graf et al., 2015. MPE 85: 3.
Bolotov et al., 2016. MPE 103: 108.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 178.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 208.
Combosch et al., 2017. MPE 107: 195.
Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1.
Huang et al., 2018. MPE 120: 302.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2018. MPE 127: 103.
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4.
Bolotov et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 116.
Guerra et al., 2019. BMC Evol. Biol. 19 (229): 3.
Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1.
Sano et al., 2020. Plankton Benthos Res. 15(2): 101.
Wu et al., 2020. Invert. Syst. 34: 195.
Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1.
Chen et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(4): Table 1.
(misidentified reference to Anodon elongatus Swainson, 1823)

Gibbosula sinensis Chen et al., 2025 = Gibbosula sinensis

Chen, Dai, Chen & Wu in Chen et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(4): 1616, figs. 2, 5D.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) NCUMB_B2507001, Nanbanhe River, a large tributary of the Lancangjiang River, upstream of Menglun Town, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodontites elongata

Aspatharia pfeifferiana

Chambardia wahlbergi

Cumberlandia monodonta

Etheria elliptica

Gibbosula confragosa Frierson, 1928

Gibbosula crassa (Wood, 1815)

Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863)

Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875)

Gibbosula sinensis Z.-G. Chen, Y.-T. Dai, H. Chen & X.-P. Wu, sp. nov.

Hyridella australis

Lamproscapha ensiformis

Lampsilis cardium

Margaritifera dahurica

Margaritifera falcata

Margaritifera hembeli

Margaritifera laevis

Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritifera marrianae

Margaritifera middendorffi

Neotrigonia lamarckii

Neotrigonia margaritacea

Potomida littoralis

Pseudunio auricularius

Pseudunio homsensis

Pseudunio marocanus

Triplodon corrugatus

 
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