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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Sphaeriinae | Sphaerium

species Sphaerium japonicum Westerlund, 1883: synonymy

0 specimens + 2 Genbank vouchers

Synonymy

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Sphaerium (Musculium) japonicum — Lee & Ó Foighil (2003)
Sphaerium japonicum biwaense — Slugina (2006), Bogan (2010)
Musculium japonicum — Schultheiß et al. (2008), Clewing et al. (2013), Fuentealba-Jara et al. (2017), Saito et al. (2022)
Sphaerium japonicum — Bogan (2010), Bespalaya et al. (2017)
Sphaerium biwaense — IUCN (2011)