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

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Publication Graf (2007): taxonomic opinions
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Graf, D.L. 2007. Palearctic freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) diversity and the Comparatory Method as a species concept. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 156: 71-88. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
+ Anodonta subcircularis Clessin, 1873
+ Anodonta ostiaria Drouët, 1881
+ Anodonta convexa Drouët, 1888
+ Anodonta apollonica Bourguignat, 1880
+ Colletopterum (Colletopterum) milaschevichi Bogatov et al., 2005
+ Colletopterum (Colletopterum) baeri Bogatov et al., 2005
+ Anodonta piscinalis Nilsson, 1822
+ Anodonta ponderosa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
+ Anodonta rostrata Rossmässler, 1836
+ Anodonta depressa Bourguignat, 1881
+ Anodonta complanata var. sorensiana Dybowski, 1913
+ Anodonta nilssonii Küster, 1842

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758) = Anodonta exulcerata

Anodonta arcaeformis (Heude, 1877) = Anemina arcaeformis
+ Sinanodonta (Anemina) buldowskii Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Sinanodonta (Anemina) shadini Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Anodonta arcaeformis var. suifunica Lindholm, 1925
+ Anodonta beringiana var. suifunensis Zhadin, 1938
+ Anodonta arcaeformis var. flavotincta Martens, 1905
+ Buldowskia cylindrica Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Amuranodonta starobogatovi Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Buldowskia suputinensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Buldowskia (Buldowskia) koreana Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
+ Buldowskia (Buldowskia) possietica Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
+ Amuranodonta kijaensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Amuranodonta parva Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Buldowskia (Amurbuldowskia) sitaensis Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
+ Buldowskia (Amuranodonta) boloniensis Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987
+ Buldowskia (Amuranodonta) lomakini Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987
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Anodonta arcaeformis (Heude, 1877) = Buldowskia flavotincta

Anodonta arcaeformis (Heude, 1877) = Buldowskia suifunica

Anodonta arcaeformis (Heude, 1877) = Amuranodonta kijaensis

Anodonta arcaeformis (Heude, 1877) = Buldowskia shadini

Anodonta beringiana Middendorff, 1851 = Beringiana beringiana
+ Anodonta youkanensis Lea, 1867
+ Beringiana kamchatica Bogatov & Starobogatov, 2001
+ Beringiana georgiensis Bogatov & Starobogatov, 2001
+ Beringiana compressa Sayenko & Bogatov, 1998
+ Beringiana chereshnevi Bogatov & Starobogatov, 2001
+ Beringiana derzhavini Bogatov & Starobogatov, 2001

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)
+ Mytilus zellensis Gmelin, 1791
+ Mytilus stagnalis Gmelin, 1791

Anodonta cyrea Drouët, 1881 = Anodonta anatina
+ Anodonta bactriana Rolle, 1897
+ Colletopterum (Ponderosiana) kokandicum Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1984

Anodonta euscaphys (Heude, 1879) = Anemina arcaeformis
+ Sinanodonta (Anemina) fuscoviridis Moskvicheva, 1973

Anodonta euscaphys (Heude, 1879) = Buldowskia shadini

Anodonta ogurae (Kuroda & Habe, 1987) = Sinanodonta tumens

Anodonta pseudodopsis Locard, 1883 = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta vescoiana Bourguignat, 1856

Anodonta woodiana japonica (von Martens in Clessin, 1874) = Beringiana beringiana
+ Anodonta haconensis Ihering, 1893
+ Anodonta iwakawai Suzuki, 1939
+ Kunashiria iturupica Bogatov et al., 1999
+ Kunashiria sinanodontoides Bogatov et al., 1999
+ Anodonta beringiana var. taranetzi Zhadin, 1938
+ Arsenievinaia coptzevi Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987
+ Arsenievinaia zimini Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987
+ Arsenievinaia compressa Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
+ Arsenievinaia zarjaensis Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988

Anodonta woodiana japonica (von Martens in Clessin, 1874) = Beringiana japonica

Anodonta woodiana japonica (von Martens in Clessin, 1874) = Buldowskia iwakawai

Anodonta woodiana woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta woodiana
+ Sinanodonta woodiana fukudai Modell, 1945
+ Sinanodonta (s.s.) amurensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Sinanodonta (s.s.) schrencki Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Sinanodonta (s.s.) likharevi Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Sinanodonta (Cristariopsis) crassitesta Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Sinanodonta (Cristariopsis) primorjensis Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988
+ Anodon puerorum Heude, 1880
+ Anodon orbicularis Heude, 1880
+ Anodon gibbum Cantor, 1842
+ Sinanodonta (Ellipsanodon) manchurica Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996

Anodonta woodiana woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta pacifica

Anodonta woodiana woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta lauta

Anodonta woodiana woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta schrenkii

Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834) = Pletholophus tenuis

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1815)
+ Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817
+ Anodonta (Dispsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848

Hyriopsis bialatus Simpson, 1900 = Hyriopsis bialata

Hyriopsis schlegelii (von Martens, 1861) = Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

Inversidens brandtii (Kobelt, 1879)

Inversidens japanensis (Lea, 1859) = Pronodularia japanensis
+ Unio haconensis Ihering, 1893

Inversidens japanensis (Lea, 1859) = Inversiunio jokohamensis

Inversidens pantoensis (Neumayr, 1899) = Middendorffinaia mongolica
+ Nodularia continentalis Haas, 1910
+ Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) shadini Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
+ Middendorffinaia (Suifununio) sujfunensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
+ Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) weliczkowskii Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973

Inversidens pantoensis (Neumayr, 1899)

Inversiunio jokohamensis (von Ihering, 1893)

Inversiunio reinianus (Kobelt, 1879)
+ Nodularia hirasei Haas, 1911

Inversiunio yanagawensis (Kondo, 1982)

Lamprotula coreana (von Martens, 1886) = Aculamprotula coreana

Lamprotula gottschei (von Martens, 1894) = Lamprotula leaii

Lamprotula plumbea (Chemnitz, 1795)

Lanceolaria acrorrhyncha (von Martens, 1894)

Lanceolaria cylindrica (Simpson, 1900)
+ Lanceolaria maacki Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria chankensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria ussuriensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria (Pericylindrica) bogatovi Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984

Lanceolaria grayana (Lea, 1834) = Lanceolaria grayii

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha (von Martens, 1861)

Leguminaia saulcyi (Bourguignat, 1852)
+ Pseudodon chantrei Locard, 1883

Leguminaia wheatleyi (Lea, 1862)

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) = Pseudunio auricularius

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
+ Dahurinaia (s.s.) tiunovae Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988
+ Dahurinaia ussuriensis Bogatov et al., 2003
+ Dahurinaia prozorovae Bogatov et al., 2003
+ Dahurinaia sujfunensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Dahurinaia komarovi Bogatov et al., 2003

Margaritifera homsensis (Lea, 1864) = Pseudunio homsensis

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
+ Dahurinaia kurilensis Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984
+ Kurilinaia zatravkini Bogatov et al., 2003

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1858) [sic]
+ Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819
+ Margaritana borealis Westerlund, 1871

Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
+ Kurilinaia kamchatica Bogatov et al., 2003

Margaritifera togakushiensis Kondo & Kobayashi, 2005 = Margaritifera middendorffi

Microcondylaea compressa (Menke, 1830) = Microcondylaea bonellii

Nodularia douglasiae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
+ Unio pictorum var. amurensis Mousson, 1887
+ Unio middendorffi Westerlund, 1890
+ Unio schrencki Westerlund, 1897
+ Unio abbreviatus Westerlund, 1897
+ Nodularia douglasiae flavoviridis Haas, 1910
+ Nodularia vladivostokensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Nodularia (s.s.) moskvichevae Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1992
+ Nodularia sakhalinensis Bogatov, 2001
+ Nodularia lebedevi Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984
+ Nodularia (Magadaninaia) extremalis Martynov & Chernyshev, 1992

Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798)
+ Unio armeniacus Kobelt, 1912
+ Unio rothi var. komarowi O. Boettger, 1880

Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798) = Unio mardinensis

Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler, 1835)
+ Pseudanodonta nordenskioldi Bourguignat, 1880
+ Anodonta klettii Rossmässler, 1835
+ Anodonta elongata Holandre, 1836

Pseudodon inoscularis (Gould, 1844)

Pseudodon omiensis (von Heimburg, 1884) = Obovalis omiensis

Pseudodontopsis euphratica (Bourguignat, 1852)

Unio crassus Philippson in Retzius, 1788 = Unio nanus
+ Unio musivus Spengler, 1793
+ Unio nana Lamarck, 1819
+ Unio fusculus Rossmässler, 1836
+ Unio cyprinorum Locard, 1882
+ Unio ater var. irgizlaicus Lindholm, 1904

Unio crassus Philippson in Retzius, 1788

Unio crassus gontieri Bourguignat, 1856 = Unio crassus
+ Unio byzantinus Drouët, 1879
+ Unio araxenus Drouët, 1881
+ Unio colchicus Drouët, 1881
+ Unio raddei Drouët, 1881
+ Unio raddei var. koutaisiana Kobelt, 1886
+ Unio kungurensis irenjensis Kobelt, 1912
+ Unio mingrelicus Drouët, 1881
+ Unio mingrelicus var. sobriewskii Rosén, 1925
+ Unio mingrelicus var. stevenianiformis Zhadin, 1938
+ Unio gregorii Kobelt, 1912

Unio crassus gontieri Bourguignat, 1856 = Unio gontierii

Unio crassus gontieri Bourguignat, 1856 = Unio mardinensis

Unio crassus gontieri Bourguignat, 1856 = Unio vicarius

Unio crassus mongolicus Middendorff, 1851 = Nodularia douglasiae
+ Middendorffinaia (s.s.) arsenievi Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
+ Middendorffinaia (s.s.) ussuriensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973
+ Middendorffinaia (Middendorffinaia) ochotica Bogatov, 2000

Unio crassus mongolicus Middendorff, 1851 = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Unio mancus Lamarck, 1819

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
+ Unio limosus Nilsson, 1822
+ Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819
+ Unio protractus Lindholm, 1932

Unio terminalis Bourguignat, 1852

Unio tigridis Bourguignat, 1852

Unio tumidus Philippson in Retzius, 1788
+ Unio conus Spengler, 1793
+ Unio muelleri Rossmässler, 1838

 
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