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 | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini | Acuticosta
species Acuticosta retiaria (Heude, 1883): synonymy
2 specimens + 3 GenBank vouchers
Synonymy
Unio retiarius Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 107.
Parreysia (Acuticosta) retiaria — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta retiaria — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Acuticosta ovata — He & Zhuang (2013)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Parreysia (Acuticosta) retiaria — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta retiaria — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Acuticosta ovata — He & Zhuang (2013)
