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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini | Ptychorhynchus pfisteri
nominal species Unio pfisteri Heude, 1874
Unio pfisteri Heude, 1874 = Ptychorhynchus pfisteri
Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 112.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 1, fig. 1.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3396, Riviere de Nanking, Chine Central.
Taxonomic Opinions
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 290.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Dai et al., 2025: Table 2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Dai et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Chen et al., 2025: Table S3.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Chen et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2024: 4, 7, Tables 1-2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Dai et al., 2024: Table 1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Liu et al., 2024: Tables 1-2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Wu et al., 2024: Tables S1-S3.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Dai et al., 2024: Tables 1-2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Zhang et al., 2024: Fig. 5, Table S3.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Konopleva et al., 2023: Table S1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Dai et al., 2023: 155, 157, Tables 1-2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Wu et al., 2023: Table 2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2022: Table S2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 21.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2021: 87.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Zieritz et al., 2021: 1091.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2021: attached Tables 1-2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2020: 15, Table 1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Liu et al., 2020: [6].
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Bolotov et al., 2020: Table S1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Fukata & Iigo, 2020: 1216.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Wu et al., 2020: 196.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Sano et al., 2020: 100.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2019: 29.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Froufe et al., 2019: 185.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Zieritz et al., 2018: online Table 1.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Do et al., 2018: 12, Table 2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Wu et al., 2018: 6.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Wang et al., 2018: 611.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Aunins et al., 2018: 1125.
= Ptychorhynchus ptisteri [sic] — Wang et al., 2018: 140.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Cha et al., 2018: 946.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Zhou et al., 2017: 233.
= Ptychorhynchus ptisteri [sic] — Sano et al., 2017: 498.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — He & Zhuang, 2013: 96, figs. 227-230.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri Heude, 1874 — IUCN, 2012: [web].
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Xiong et al., 2012: 129, Table 2.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri Heude, 1874 — Bogan, 2010: [web].
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 311.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Prozorova et al., 2005: 51.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Hu, 2005: 81.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Huang et al., 2002: 360.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude) — Dang et al., 1980: 505, hinh 309.
+ — Liu et al., 1979.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Haas, 1969: 107.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Haas, 1969: N434, fig. D32:8.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude) — Thiele, 1934: 824, [1257].
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Haas, 1924: 155, text figs. 4-6.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Simpson, 1914: 1145.
= Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874) — Simpson, 1900: 851.
= Unio pfisteri Heude — Neumayr, 1899: 645, 646.
= Unio pfisteri Heude — Heude, 1875: pl. 1, fig. 1.
