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

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Publication Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Moskvicheva, I.M. & Ya.I. Starobogatov. 1973. On the east Asian Potomida-like Unionidae (Bivalvia). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii 78(2): 21-37.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 26.
Type species: Unio mongolicus Middendorff, 1851 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Pseudopotomida Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 31.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) shadini Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Sujfununio Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 30.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Middendorffinaia (Suifununio) sujfunensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Attributed Nominal Species

There are 9 available nominal species attributed to this publication (12 total).
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Taxonomic Opinions

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) continentalis (Haas, 1910) = Inversidens pantoensis

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) dulkeitiana sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) hassanica sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) martensi sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) pantoensis (Neumayr, 1899) = Inversidens pantoensis

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) schoedi [sic] (Haas, 1930) = Ptychorhynchus schoedei

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) shadini nom. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica
+ Unio (Nodularia) continentalis Zhadin, 1938

Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) weliczkowskii sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (s.s.) arsenievi sp. nov. = Nodularia douglasiae

Middendorffinaia (s.s.) mongolica (Middendorff, 1851) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (s.s.) ussuriensis sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendorffinaia (Sujfununio) denserugata (Haas, 1910) = Nodularia douglasiae

Middendorffinaia (Sujfununio) sujfunensis sp. nov. = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Pronodularia haconensis (Ihering, 1893) = Inversiunio jokohamensis

Pronodularia hirasei (Haas, 1911) = Inversiunio reinianus

Pronodularia japanensis (Lea, 1859)

Pronodularia jokohamensis (Ihering, 1893) = Inversiunio jokohamensis

Pronodularia reiniana (Kobelt, 1879) = Inversiunio reinianus

Rhombuniopsis fultoni sp. nov.

Rhombuniopsis heres (Neumayr, 1899)

Rhombuniopsis superstes (Neumayr, 1899) = Leoparreysia superstes

Rhombuniopsis tauriformis (Fulton, 1906)
 
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