Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini | Acuticosta

species Acuticosta chinensis (Lea, 1868): synonymy

20 specimens + 12 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

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Unio chinensis Lea, 1868

Lea, 1868. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 20: 150.
specimen image from publicationLea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 325, pl. 53, fig. 138.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MCZ_175567, Hong Kong, China.

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensisHaas (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), ... Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Acuticosta sinensis [sic]Haas (1969)

Unio sinensis Heude, 1875

“Lea” Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): sp. 26.
‘Lea’ Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N416 [as ‘Acuticosta sinensis’].
‘Lea’ Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1051.
(error for Unio chinensis Lea, 1868)

Acuticosta chinensisHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio sinensis [sic] var. laevis Heude, 1883

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 116 [as ‘lævis’].
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio chinensis Lea, 1868)

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis var. laevisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensisHaas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio sinensis [sic] var. squammosus Heude, 1883

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 113.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio chinensis Lea, 1868)

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis var. squamosusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensisHaas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Parreysia squamosus Haas, 1969

Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 82.
(error for Unio sinensis [sic] var. squammosus Heude, 1883)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis var. laevisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis var. squamosusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensisHaas (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), ... Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Acuticosta sinensis [sic]Haas (1969)