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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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genus Aculamprotula Wu, Liang, Wang & Ouyang, 1999: synonymy
     9 Recent valid species (9 total species)

Scriptolamprotula Modell, 1964
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 110.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio scriptus Heude, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Aculamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula Wu et al., 1999
Wu, 1998. Stud. Freshw. Shellf. Yangze: ??.
Wu et al., 1999. Acta Hydrobiol. Sinica 23 supplement: 141.
Type species: Unio fibrosus Heude, 1877 (monotypy) = Aculamprotula fibrosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Lamprotula)Martens (1905)
Unio (Quadrula)Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
LamprotulaHaas (1920), Modell (1942), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), Habe (1977), ... Froufe et al. (2019), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)
AculamprotulaWu et al. (1999), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Bogan (2013), ... Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Lamprotula (Scriptolamprotula)Yu et al. (2001)
GibbosulaLopes-Lima et al. (2018), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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