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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Chamberlainiini

genus Sinohyriopsis Starobogatov, 1970: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (3 total species)

Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67, 286.
Type species: Unio schlegelii Martens, 1861 (orig. desig.) = Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

Sinohyriopsis Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67, 286.
Type species: Unio cumingii Lea, 1852 (orig. desig.) = Sinohyriopsis cumingii

Nipponohyria Habe, 1991
‘Starobogatov’
Habe, 1991. Hitachiobi 56: 4.
(error for Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970)

Nipponihyra Lopes-Lima et al., 2020
‘Starobogatov’
Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: Appendix 1.
(error for Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Hyriopsis (s.s.)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
SimpsoniaRochebrune (1904)
Unio (Hyriopsis)Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
HyriopsisPreston (1912), Haas (1924), Kuroda (1963), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Jin et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020), Smith (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022)
ChamberlainiaSimpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Brandt (1974), IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018)
SinohyriopsisStarobogatov (1970), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), ... Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
NipponihyriaStarobogatov (1970)
Hyriopsis (Sinohyriopsis)Habe (1977), Habe (1991)
Hyriopsis (S.)Ugai (2001)

 
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