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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lepidodesmini | Lepidodesma aligera
nominal species Unio languilati var. aligerus Heude, 1877
Unio languilati var. aligerus Heude, 1877 = Lepidodesma aligera
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 17, fig. 37.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio languilati Heude, 1874)
Taxonomic Opinions
= Lepidodesma aligera — Hou et al., 2025: Table S2.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Hou et al., 2025: Table S2.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Wang et al., 2025: Table S2.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Wu et al., 2024: 6.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Hou et al., 2024: Table 2.
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2023: Tables 2-3.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Liu et al., 2022: Table 1.
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 14.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Liu et al., 2020: [6].
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877) — Huang et al., 2019: 57.
+ Lepidodesma languilati (Heude, 1874) — He & Zhuang, 2013: 78, figs. 180-181.
= Lepidodesma aligera Heude, 1877 — Bogan, 2010: [19].
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 304.
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1875) — Prozorova et al., 2005: 54.
= Lepidodesma aligera — Hu, 2005: 82.
= Lepidodesma aligerum (Heude, 1877) — Haas, 1969: 385.
= Lepidodesma aliger (Heude, 1877) — Simpson, 1914: 238.
= Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877) — Simpson, 1900: 587.
= Lepidodesma aligerus (Heude) — Simpson, 1896: 311.
+ Unio languilati Heude, 1874 — Paetel, 1890: 144.
= Unio languilati var. aligerus Heude — Heude, 1877: pl. 17, fig. 37.
