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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Rectidentini | Ensidens

species Ensidens spiculus Pfeiffer, Graf, Cummings & Page, 2021: synonymy
     13 specimens + 11 Genbank vouchers

Ensidens sagittarius Bolotov et al., 2017
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Muanta et al., 2019. J. Moll. Studies 85(2): 227 [as ‘Clade B4’].
Konopleva et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Konopleva et al., 2019. Ecologica Montenegrina 24: Appendix 1 [as ‘E. aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
Zieritz et al., 2020. Biodivers. Conserv. 29: 2242 [as ‘Ensidens aff. sagittarius sp. 2’].
(misidentified reference to Unio sagittarius Lea, 1856)

Ensidens spiculusPfeiffer et al. (2021)
Ensidens sp. 1Wu et al. (2021)

Ensidens spiculus Pfeiffer et al., 2021
Pfeiffer et al., 2021. Invert. Syst. 35: 448, figs. 1, 9, 29-30, 32.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) UF_564752, Mekong River, along Rt. 211, Sangkhom District, Nong Khai Province, Thailand.

Ensidens sp. ‘Thai’Bolotov et al. (2020)
Ensidens spiculusPfeiffer et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Ensidens sp. ‘Thai’Bolotov et al. (2020)
Ensidens spiculusPfeiffer et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023)
Ensidens sp. 1Wu et al. (2021)

 
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