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

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species Simpsonasus nankingensis (Heude, 1874): synonymy
     7 specimens

Monocondylea nankingensis Heude, 1874
Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 116.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 4, fig. 9 [as ‘nankinensis’ on plate caption].
Type(s): SYNTYPES MCZ_167240, Nanking, China.

Pseudodon (sec. Nasus) nankingensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)
Pseudodon (Nasus) nankingensisHaas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Nasus nankingensisModell (1957)
Liu et al. (1979)
Pseudodon nankingensisHu (2005), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Simpsonasus nankingensisBolotov et al. (2023)

Pseudodon secundus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 18, fig. 38.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3420, Ngan-houe, China.

Pseudodon (sec. Nasus) secundusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Nasus) secundusHaas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Liu et al. (1979)
Nasus secundusProzorova et al. (2005)
Pseudodon secundusHu (2005), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Simpsonasus nankingensisBolotov et al. (2023)

Monocondylaea nankinensis Heude, 1875
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 4, fig. 9 [as ‘nankinensis’ on plate caption].
(error for Monocondylea nankingensis Heude, 1874)

Monocondylaea nanquingensis Paetel, 1890
‘Heude’ Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 174.
(error for Monocondylea nankingensis Heude, 1874)

Pseudodon (sec. Nasus) nankingensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Nasus) nankingensisHaas (1920)

Monocondylus nangkinensis Neumayr, 1899
‘Heude’ Neumayr, 1899. Wiss. Erg. Reise Szechény Ost-Asien 2: 645.
(error for Monocondylea nankingensis Heude, 1874)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pseudodon (sec. Nasus) nankingensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)
Pseudodon (sec. Nasus) secundusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Nasus) nankingensisHaas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Nasus) secundusHaas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Nasus nankingensisModell (1957)
Liu et al. (1979)
Pseudodon nankingensisHu (2005), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Nasus secundusProzorova et al. (2005)
Pseudodon secundusHu (2005), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Simpsonasus nankingensisBolotov et al. (2023)

 
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