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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini

genus Lamprotula Simpson, 1900: species
     5 available nominal genus synonyms (8 total synonyms) | cladomics

Lamprotula bazini (Heude, 1877)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Yangtze River, China. Reported from northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula blaisei (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (20)
Range: Northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable B1ab(iii)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877)
syonymy (3 available, 7 total) | specimens (23 + 16 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Yangtze River, China to northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, ITS1, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, ND1, other
IUCN Red List: Least Concern, Endangered B2ab(ii,iii,v) (Lamprotula contritus)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula chiai Chow, 1958
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Yangtze Basin, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula cornuumlunae (Heude, 1883)
syonymy (6 available, 7 total) | specimens (15 + 6 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, ITS1, mtGenome, ND1, other, SRA
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula divergens (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Zhoushan Island, Zhejiang Province, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula elongata Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1980
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)

Lamprotula kouangensis (Simpson, 1900)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula leaii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
syonymy (6 available, 9 total) | specimens (165 + 16 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Korea, south to northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COII, Cytb, H3, ITS1, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Lamprotula leai), Endangered A2ac (Lamprotula ponderosa)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula linae He & Zhuang, 2013
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Huang He (Yellow) River, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula microsticta (Heude, 1877)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula nanningensis (Qian, Fang & He, 2015)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Southern China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula paschalis (Heude, 1883)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Qiantang and Xiang rivers, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula plumbea (Dillwyn, 1817)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Presumably southeastern Asia, but actual range unknown. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula salaputium (Martens, 1902)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula seomjinensis (Kondo, Hyun & Seung-Ho, 2007)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Seomjingang River, South Korea. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 28S, COI
IUCN Red List: Endangered B1ab(iii,v)+2ab(iii,v)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula triclava (Heude, 1877)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (4)
Range: Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ac
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula aculeata B.-Y. Huang, 1981 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: China, fossil.
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula ambigua Leroy, 1940 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula antiqua Odhner, 1925 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula crassa (Ping, 1931) (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2abc

Lamprotula hungi Schneider, Böhme & Prieto, 2013 (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Tertiary, northern Vietnam. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula nojimensis Ueji, 1934 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula obovata B.-Y. Huang, 1981 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: China, fossil.
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula plana Huang, 1991 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lamprotula wangi Chow, 1958 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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