species Acuticosta chinensis (Lea, 1868): synonymy

Unio chinensis Lea, 1868

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

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensis — Haas (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), ... Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
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 chinensis — He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio sinensis [sic] var. laevis Heude, 1883

Heude, 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. laevis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensis — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio sinensis [sic] var. squammosus Heude, 1883

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

Parreysia (Acuticosta) chinensis var. squamosus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta chinensis — Haas (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)