MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Mon 2 March 2026
Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina | Pletholophus tenuis
nominal species Unio tenuis Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
Unio tenuis Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Pletholophus tenuis
Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): pl. 24, fig. 2.
‘Gray’ Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(39-40): 595 [as ‘Anodon tenuis’], 601.
Taxonomic Opinions
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Dai et al., 2026: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Chen et al., 2026: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 293.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Xiang et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Dai et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Wu et al., 2025: Table S3.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Gray, 1833) — Chen et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Dai et al., 2024: 1194, Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Bogan et al., 2023: Tables 1, S2.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Gray, 1833) — Chen et al., 2023: 133, Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Liu et al., 2022: Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2022: Table S1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Sano et al., 2022: Table S1.
= Cristaria tenuis — Hata et al., 2022: Table S1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 16.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2020: 9, Table 1, Appendix 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis — Liu et al., 2020: [7].
= Pletholophus tenuis — Sano et al., 2020: 101.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.
= Cristaria tenuis — Kano et al., 2019: 9.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Zieritz et al., 2018: online Table 1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Do et al., 2018: 11, Table 2.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Bolotov et al., 2018: Table S1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2017: 177.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Bolotov et al., 2017: [15], Table S1.
= Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Bolotov et al., 2017: Table S1.
= Pletholophus tenuis Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 — Sano et al., 2017: 494, Table 2.
= Sinanodonta tenuis (Griffith et Pidgeon, 1833) — Bogatov & Prozorova, 2017: 925.
= Cristaria tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — He & Zhuang, 2013: 42, figs. 92-98.
= Cristaria tenuis (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — IUCN, 2012: [web].
+ — Petit & Coan, 2008: 229.
+ Cristaria (Pletholophus) discoidea discoidea (Lea, 1834) — Haas, 1969: 388.
+ Cristaria (Pletholophus) discoidea (Lea, 1834) — Simpson, 1914: 230.
+ Cristaria (Pletholophus) discoidea (Lea, 1834) — Simpson, 1900: 585.
+ Margaron (Dipsas) discoideus (Lea) — Lea, 1870: 74.
+ Anodonta magnifica Lea — Schrenck, 1867: 718.
+ Unio discoidea (Lea, 1834) — Sowerby, 1866: pl. 53, sp. 275.
+ Dipsas discoidea Lea — Küster, 1862: 306.
+ Margaron (Dipsas) discoideus (Lea) — Lea, 1852: 46.
+ Margarita (Dipsas) discoideus Lea — Lea, 1838: 28.
+ Margarita (Dipsas) discoideus (Lea, 1834) — Lea, 1836: 47.
