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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 | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Schistodesmus

species Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Schistodesmus spinosus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Zhou et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Xiong et al. (2012), ... Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Schistodesmus lampreyanus — IUCN (2011)

Range

Yangtze River, China.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

China

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU135. (28S, COI) China: Hunan, Yueyang

16_NCU_XPWU_SU136. (28S, COI) China: Hunan, Yueyang

16_NCU_XPWU_SU137. (28S, COI) China: Hunan, Yueyang

16_NCU_XPWU_SU138. (28S, COI) China: Hunan, Yueyang

21-NCU-XPWU-SSF01. (mtGenome) China: Jiangxi, Poyang Lake

NCUBM_20180248. (COI, ND1) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China

Mp_2658_Sspinosus. (16S) Poyang Lake, Jiangxi [China]

Mp_2735_Ssp. (16S) Qing Lan Lake, Jiangxi, China