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

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Bivalvia | ... | Gonideinae | Rectidentini | Ensidens spiculus

nominal species 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 spiculus

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Ensidens spiculus sp. nov. — Pfeiffer et al., 2021

+ Ensidens sp. 1 — Wu et al., 2021
 
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