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species Sinohyriopsis schlegelii (Martens, 1861): specimens
1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Hyriopsis schlegelii — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Plazzi et al. (2011), Peng et al. (2012), ... Mabuchi et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022)
Hyriopsis schlegeli — Zhou et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), Wei et al. (2016), Sano et al. (2017), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020)
Sinohyriopsis schlegelii — Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2018), Cha et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), ... Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Sinohyriopsis schlegeli — Zieritz et al. (2018), Sano et al. (2020)

Range

Lake Biwa, Japan. Introduced to Lake Kasumigaura.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map

ANSP_KAT_2021	ANSP_KAT_3927	ANSP_KAT_9305
SMF_319633	SMF_14724 Ogura-ika, [ehemalige Provinz] Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto]	SMF_14717 Seta [ggü. von Ōtsu], Biwa-See, Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]
SMF_14721 Seta [ggü. von Ōtsu], Omi, Biwa-See, Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14723 Setagawa [= Oberlauf des Yodo unterhalb des Biwa-Sees] [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14722 Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto, ehemalige Provinz]
SMF_14720 Yodo, [ehemalige Provinz] Yamashiro [Insel Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Kyōto Fluss]

Japan

ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_320812 Beach at Katada Machi on Lake Biwa, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan
MCZ_151629 Biwa Lake, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan	SMF_14718 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_14719 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]
UMMZ_50253 channel connecting with Tone-gawa, Sasakawa, Chibaken, Japan	UMMZ_50253 channel connecting with Tone-gawa, Sasakawa, Chibaken, Japan	MCZ_293512 Hikone, Lake Biwa, Honshue, Japan
BMNH_1907-12-21-123 Japan	USNM_127248 Japan	SMF_319634 Japan, Lake Biwa
MCZ_MP_319 Katada, Biwa-ko, Shiga Pref.	MNHN_MP_3944 Lac Biwaco, Province Omi	SMF_194015 Lake Biwa Shiga-Pref [Japan]
ANSP_244860 Lake Biwa, Honshu, Japan	BMNH_85-12-10-1 Lake Biwa, Japan	BMNH_85-12-10-1 Lake Biwa, Japan
MCZ_193339 Lake Biwa, Japan	UMMZ_169795 Lake Biwa, Japan	UMMZ_169795 Lake Biwa, Japan
UMMZ_220235 Lake Biwa, Katada Machi, Shiga Ken, Honshu, Japan	MCZ_293521 Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, Honshu, Japan	FMNH_70954 Lake Biwa, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan
UMMZ_162798 Lake Biwa, Tozando [Eastern Mountain region], Japan	ANSP_48416 Ogura, Japan	ANSP_80696 Ogura, Yamashiro, Japan
FMNH_21770 Oguraike, Yamashimo, Japan	USNM_1093091 Shiga, Japan	MCZ_44634 Yamashiro, Japan