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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Indochinellini | Indonaia

species Indonaia andersoniana (Nevill, 1877): synonymy
     5 specimens + 44 Genbank vouchers

Unio andersoniana Nevill, 1877
Nevill, 1877. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 46: 40.

Nodularia (s.s.) caeruleaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) andersonianaPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Parreysia smaragditesPrashad (1922)
Indonaia caeruleaHaas (1969)
Parreysia (Radiatula) andersonianaSubba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Radiatula (Indonaia) andersonianaNesemann et al. (2003)
Radiatula andersonianaNesemann et al. (2007), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Parreysia andersonianaBogan (2010), IUCN (2010)
Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Jeratthitikul et al. (2019), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Konopleva et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Indonaia (caerulea-group) andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)

Radiatula caerulea Bolotov et al., 2017
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2018. J. Moll. Studies 84(4): [4]. [in part]

Unio smaragdites Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Benson’ of Authors.
Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 343.
Prashad, 1922. Rec. Ind. Mus. 24: 102.

Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio coeruleus Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Lea’ Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 344.

Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio leioma Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Benson’ Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 344.

Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio marginalis var. bilineata Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Hanley & Theobald’ Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 347.

Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022)

Parreysia (Radiatula) andersoni Ramakrishna et al., 2004
Ramakrishna et al., 2004. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Pap. 228: 79.

Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) caeruleaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) andersonianaPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Parreysia smaragditesPrashad (1922)
Indonaia caeruleaHaas (1969)
Parreysia (Radiatula) andersonianaSubba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Radiatula (Indonaia) andersonianaNesemann et al. (2003)
Radiatula andersonianaNesemann et al. (2007), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Parreysia andersonianaBogan (2010), IUCN (2010)
Indonaia andersonianaBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Jeratthitikul et al. (2019), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Konopleva et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Indonaia (caerulea-group) andersonianaBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)

 
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