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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae | Gibbosula

species Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863): specimens
     2 available nominal species synonyms (6 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Margaritifera laosensis — Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2014), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) laosensis — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Gibbosula laosensis — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), Lyubas et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), ... Dai et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025)
— Bolotov et al. (2019)

Range

Eastern Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, southeastern Asia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Cambodia

China

Laos

Myanmar

BMNH_1965219. Fort Stedman, Shan States

Thailand

unknown

Vietnam

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Laos

RMBH_biv_0186_1. (16S, 28S, COI) Laos: Mekong River basin, Nam Long River