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species Nodularia nipponensis (Martens, 1877): specimens
1 available nominal species synonym (3 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Unio douglasiae nipponensis — Kondo (2008)
Nodularidia douglasiae — He & Zhuang (2013)
Nodularia douglasiae nipponensis — Sano et al. (2017), Kano et al. (2019)
Nodularia nipponensis — Liu et al. (2017), Klishko et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Choi et al. (2020), Sayenko et al. (2021), ... Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025)
Nodularia douglasiae — Wu et al. (2024)

Range

Japan.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map

ANSP_KAT_3926	ANSP_KAT_4001	ANSP_KAT_7679
ANSP_KAT_9252	SMF_14599 Fluss Tsusen [= Tsūsen-gawa? zum Shinano River], Niigata, Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Chūbu: Niigata]	SMF_14593 Geotoku, Japan
SMF_14591 Heirabuchanuma, Japan	SMF_14594 Japan	SMF_82906 Komakura [richtig: Kamakura] [Japan Kantō: Kanagawa]
SMF_14597 Komakura [richtig: Kamakura], Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Kantō: Kanagawa]	SMF_14596 Koyomake-See [See Koyama-ike/Kosan ike, 6 km W von Tottori], [historische] Provinz Inaba, Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Chūgoku: Tottori]	SMF_14600 Mikawa, Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Chūbu: Aichi, historische Provinz?]
SMF_4047 Nagoya, Hondo [Insel Honshū], Japan [Chūbu: Aichi]	SMF_168228 Nippon [=] Japan	SMF_14595 Owari, Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Chūbu: Aichi]
SMF_14598 Sendai, Japan [Insel Honshū] [Japan Tōhoku: Miyagi]	SMF_14592 Yanagawa, Japan [Insel Kyūshū] [Japan Kyūshū: Fukuoka]

China

UMMZ_109683
Manchuria, China

UMMZ_109676
ponds near Girling, China

Japan

SMF_14590 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	SMF_3463 Biwa-See [auf Honshū], Japan [Japan Kinki: Shiga]	UMMZ_50252 channel connecting with Tone-gawa, Sasakawa, Chibaken, Japan
UMMZ_50248 Chikugo R., & connected water near Kuname, Kyushii, Japan	FMNH_191464 Isinden, Ise, Japan	MNHN_MP_3644 Japan
UMMZ_109672 Japan	UMMZ_110025 Japan	MNHN_MP_3585 Japon
MNHN_MP_3728 Japon	MNHN_MP_3735 Japon	MNHN_MP_3763 Japon
MNHN_MP_3764 Japon	MNHN_MP_3765 Japon	UMMZ_4437 Kamakura, Japan
ANSP_228147 Kynshu, Japan	UMMZ_109675 Kyoto, Japan	UMMZ_184041 Lake Ogura, Kyoto, Japan
ZMB_28142 Mukosima, Tokio, Japan	FMNH_20181 near Kamakura, Japan	FMNH_90226 near Tokyo, Japan
ANSP_41669 Ogura, Yamashiro, Japan	UMMZ_109674 Ogura, Yamashiro, Japan	UMMZ_109673 paddy fields near Kamakura, Japan
ANSP_244871 Teganuma, Chiba-ken, Japan	UMMZ_50251 Tone-gawa, near Omigawa, Japan	FMNH_21792 Yamashiro, Japan
FMNH_59343 Yamashiro, Japan	FMNH_21794 Yanagawa, Japan	UMMZ_60407 Yougawa, Japan