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

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species Tchangsinaia piscicula (Heude, 1874): synonymy
     17 specimens + 11 Genbank vouchers

Unio pisciculus Heude, 1874
Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 115.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 2, figs. 6-6a.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3382, riviere du Ning Kouo, Kiangsi, Chine Centrale.

Cuneopsis pisciculusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), ... Wu et al. (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Lopes-Lima et al. (2024)
Cuneopsis (Tchangsinaia) pisciculusStarobogatov (1970)
Cuneopsis pisiculus [sic]Do et al. (2018)
Arcuneopsis pisciculusWu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Tchangsinaia pisciculaDai et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), ... Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Tchangsinaia pisciculusCampbell & Lydeard (2026)

Unio retortus Martens, 1875
Martens, 1875. S.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 1875: 4.
Martens, 1875. Malak. Blatt. 22: 188.
Type(s): SYNTYPE ZMB_31062, Siang Kiang Fl., Prov. Hunan, China.

Cuneopsis pisciculusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio flexuosus Neumayr, 1899
Neumayr, 1899. Wiss. Erg. Reise Szechény Ost-Asien 2: 642, pl. 2, fig. 2.

Unio flexuosusSimpson (1914)
Cuneopsis pisciculusHaas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio flexicosus Simpson, 1914
‘Neumayr’ Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 721.
(error for Unio flexuosus Neumayr, 1899)

Cuneopsis pisciculusHaas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Prozorova et al. (2005)

Cuneopsis pisciulus Wu et al., 1999
‘Heude’ Wu et al., 1999. Acta Hydrobiol. Sinica 23(2): 145.
(error for Unio pisciculus Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis pisiculus Do et al., 2018
‘Heude’ Do et al., 2018. FW Moll. Biol. Conserv. 21: 5.
(error for Unio pisciculus Heude, 1874)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cuneopsis pisciculusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), ... Wu et al. (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Lopes-Lima et al. (2024)
Unio flexuosusSimpson (1914)
Cuneopsis (Tchangsinaia) pisciculusStarobogatov (1970)
Cuneopsis pisiculus [sic]Do et al. (2018)
Arcuneopsis pisciculusWu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Tchangsinaia pisciculaDai et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), ... Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Tchangsinaia pisciculusCampbell & Lydeard (2026)

 
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