Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina

genus Cristaria Schumacher, 1817: species

8 available nominal genus synonyms (24 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Decorative image of a representative of Cristaria bellua

Cristaria bellua (Morelet, 1866)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (32 + 8 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. (East Asia)

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

Decorative image of a representative of Cristaria clessini

Cristaria clessini (Kobelt, 1879)

synonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (10 + 3 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Honshu Island, Japan (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 28S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria liboi Chen, Xiang, He & Guo in Chen et al., 2026

synonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Known only from Furong Creek, Yangtze Basin, Sichuan Province, China. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: COI, mtGenome

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)

synonymy (14 available, 25 total) | specimens (171 + 44 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Indochina and China north to the Amur Basin, eastern Russia and Mongolia, also Japan and the Kuril islands. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, mtGenome, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Cristaria radiata

Cristaria radiata Simpson, 1900

synonymy (1 available, 3 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Described from Anhui Province, China. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: COI, other
other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria truncata Dang, Thai & Pham, 1980

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Northern Vietnam. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, mtGenome
IUCN Red List: Endangered B2ab(i,iii)
other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria wangyucheni Chen & Dai in Dai et al., 2026

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Tongbo River, upper Yangtze, Sichuan, China. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria falcatocostata Schneider, Böhme & Prieto, 2013 (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Tertiary, northern Vietnam. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria mediterranea Schütt, 1983 (Quaternary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Quaternary, Greece. (North Eurasia)

other links: MolluscaBase

Cristaria mothanica Schneider, Böhme & Prieto, 2013 (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Tertiary, northern Vietnam. (East Asia)

other links: MolluscaBase