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

species Cristaria bellua (Morelet, 1866): synonymy

32 specimens + 8 Genbank vouchers

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Anodonta bellua Morelet, 1866

Morelet, 1866. Rev. Mag. Zool. 18: 167.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 331 [as ‘Dipsas’].
Type(s): LECTOTYPE MCZ_175610, Lake Touli-Sap, Cambodia, Indo China.

Cristaria (s.s.) belluaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata plicataHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataBrandt (1974), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
Cristaria belluaDang et al. (1980), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cristaria (s.s.) belluaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata plicataHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataBrandt (1974), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
Cristaria belluaDang et al. (1980), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)

 
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