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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina

genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945: species

5 available nominal genus synonyms (6 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Sinanodonta angula (Tchang, Li & Liu, 1965)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0 + 5 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Yangtze and Qiantang rivers, China. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 28S, COI, ND1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta calipygos

Sinanodonta calipygos (Kobelt, 1879)

syonymy (1 available, 3 total) | specimens (8 + 20 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Lake Biwa, Japan. Introduced to other localities in Japan as well. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta elliptica

Sinanodonta elliptica (Heude, 1878)

syonymy (1 available, 4 total) | specimens (1 + 15 Genbank vouchers)

Range: China. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 28S, COI, ND1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta jourdyi

Sinanodonta jourdyi (Morlet, 1886)

syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (20 + 10 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Vietnam and southern China. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Pilsbryoconcha suilla)
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta lauta

Sinanodonta lauta (Martens, 1877)

syonymy (6 available, 9 total) | specimens (7 + 143 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Primorye, Russia. Introduced to the Volga and Yenisei rivers in Russia, as well as Borneo and Iran. (North Eurasia, East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, COI M-type, Cytb, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta lucida

Sinanodonta lucida (Heude, 1877)

syonymy (1 available, 3 total) | specimens (11 + 3 Genbank vouchers)

Range: China and Indochina. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 28S, COI, mtGenome, ND1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta pacifica

Sinanodonta pacifica (Heude, 1878)

syonymy (9 available, 12 total) | specimens (15 + 29 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Native range in eastern China and Taiwan. Widely introduced in East Asia (Japan and Myanmar to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines) as well as the USA, Central America, and Iraq. (North America, Central America, North Eurasia, East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 28S, COI, mtGenome, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Sinanodonta schrenkii (Lea, 1870)

syonymy (7 available, 10 total) | specimens (0 + 27 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Amur and Suifen rivers, Russia, and South Korea. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, Cytb, mtGenome, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Sinanodonta tumens

Sinanodonta tumens (Haas, 1910)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (6 + 4 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Lake Biwa basin, Japan. (East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, mtGenome, other
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Sinanodonta ogurae)
other links: MolluscaBase

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)

syonymy (46 available, 68 total) | specimens (185 + 164 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Native range in the Yangtze Basin in China, but widely introduced in Europe, North Africa, Central Asia, Korea and Myanmar. (North Eurasia, East Asia)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 16S M-type, 28S, COI, COI M-type, COII, Cytb, Cytb M-type, H3, ITS1, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
NatureServe: GNR
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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