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

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Publication Huang et al. (2002): summary
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Huang, Y.-Y., H.-Z. Liu, X.-P. Wu & S. Ouyang. 2002. Testing the relationships of Chinese freshwater Unionidae (Bivalvia) based on analysis of partial mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequences. Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 359-363. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Lepidodesma languilata Haas, 1969
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo: N446.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1058.
Huang et al., 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 360.
(error for Unio languilati Heude, 1874)

Taxonomic Opinions

Acuticosta ovata (Simpson, 1914)

Alasmidonta triangulata (Lea, 1858)

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodonta couperiana (Lea, 1840) = Utterbackiana couperiana

Anodonta woodiana woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta woodiana

Anodontoides radiata (Conrad, 1834) = Strophitus radiatus

Arconaia lanceolata (Lea, 1856) = Lanceolaria lanceolata

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1815)

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Cuneopsis pisciculus (Heude, 1875) = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Ellipsaria lineolata Rafinesque, 1820

Elliptoideus sloatianus (Lea, 1840)

Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852) = Sinohyriopsis cumingii

Lamprotula leai (Gray, 1834) = Lamprotula leaii

Lampsilis teres (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lanceolaria grayana (Lea, 1834) = Lanceolaria grayii

Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lepidodesma languilata [sic] (Heude, 1874) = Lepidodesma languilati

Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus fragilis

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Medionidus conradicus (Rafinesque, 1820) [sic]

Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820

Plectomerus dombeyanus Valenciennes, 1827

Pleurobema pyriforme (Lea, 1857)

Potamilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819)

Ptychobranchus subtentum (Say, 1825) = Ptychobranchus subtentus

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874)

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)

Solenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877) = Sinosolenaia oleivora

Unio douglasiae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 = Nodularia douglasiae

Uniomerus obesus (Lea, 1831) = Uniomerus carolinianus

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Villosa delumbis (Conrad, 1834)

 
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