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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 | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina

genus Beringiana Starobogatov in Zatravkin, 1983: species
     3 available nominal genus synonyms | cladomics

Beringiana beringiana (Middendorff, 1851)
syonymy (20 available, 32 total) | specimens (1 + 55 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widely distributed from Japan and Primorye, Russia to the Pacific Coastal Region of North America, possibly as far south a California, including the Kuril and Aleutian islands. (North America, East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, other
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
NatureServe: G4
other links: MolluscaBase

Beringiana fukuharai San, Hattori & Kondo in Lopes-Lima et al., 2020
syonymy (1 available, 5 total) | specimens (0 + 53 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Honshu and Kyushu islands, Japan. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, mtGenome, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Beringiana gosannensis San, Hattori & Kondo in Lopes-Lima et al., 2020
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0 + 17 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Honshu Island, Japan. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 28S, COI, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Beringiana japonica (Clessin, 1874)
syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (12 + 16 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Japan, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, eastern Asia. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, other
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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