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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini | Simpsonasus

species Simpsonasus nankingensis (Heude, 1874): specimens
     2 available nominal species synonyms (5 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Pseudodon (Nasus) nankingensis — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Nasus) secundus — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon nankingensis — Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Pseudodon secundus — Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Simpsonasus nankingensis — Bolotov et al. (2023)

Range

Lower Yangtze River, China.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

China