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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini

genus Pronodularia Starobogatov, 1970: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Pronodularia Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 66, 285.
Type species: Unio japanensis Lea, 1859 (orig. desig.) = Pronodularia japanensis

Pronodluaria Wu et al., 2016
Wu et al., 2016. mtDNA 27(6): 4521.
Wu et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 10: 732.
(error for Pronodularia Starobogatov, 1970)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.)Simpson (1900), Haas (1911), Simpson (1914)
InversidensKira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), Haas (1969), Habe (1977), ... Kongim et al. (2015), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Amaro et al. (2017), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
UnioZhadin (1965), Huang et al. (2013), Burzynski et al. (2017)
PronodulariaStarobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Kondo et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), ... Zhang et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Inversidena [sic]Habe (1991)
“Unio”Zhou et al. (2016)
Pronodluaria [sic]Wu et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2018)

 
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