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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini | Acuticosta

species Acuticosta ovata (Simpson, 1900): specimens
     4 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Acuticosta ovata — Graf & Cummings (2007), Zhou et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Sano et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Liu et al. (2022), Wang et al. (2025)
Acuticosta retiaria — Graf & Cummings (2021)

Range

Yangtze Basin, China.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

China

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

Mp_2657_Aov. (16S: AF389412, go to Genbank) Jiangxi, China.

Mp_2658_Aovata. (16S: DQ073814, go to Genbank) Poyang Lake, Jiangxi [China].