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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 | Gonideinae | Contradentini

genus Lens Simpson, 1900: species
     5 available nominal genus synonyms (7 total synonyms) | cladomics

Lens comptus (Deshayes in Deshayes & Jullien, 1876)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (61 + 44 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mekong River, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, SRA
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Harmandia munensis)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens contradens (Lea, 1838)
syonymy (23 available, 36 total) | specimens (383 + 147 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread from the Mekong in Vietnam to Sumatra and Java. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Uniandra contradens), Least Concern (Physunio cambodiensis)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens eximius (Lea, 1856)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (97 + 22 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mekong in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Physunio eximius)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens fultoni (Haas, 1930)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Vietnam. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens inornatus (Lea, 1856)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (34 + 9 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mekong in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, and west to the Chao Phraya. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: COI, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Physunio inornatus)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens lugens (Drouët & Chaper, 1892)
syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (34)
Range: Borneo. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 18S, 28S, COI, ND1
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens maenamensis Pfeiffer, Graf, Cummings & Page, 2021
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (46 + 30 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mekong Basin, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, H3, SRA
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens micropterus (Morelet, 1866)
syonymy (10 available, 15 total) | specimens (123 + 49 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Lower Mekong, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Physunio micropterus)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens misellus (Morelet, 1865)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (14 + 8 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Thailand and Vietnam. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, SRA
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Trapezoideus misellus)
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens novoselovi (Konopleva, Bolotov, Spitsyn, Kondakov, Gofarov & Vikhrev, 2019)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0 + 3 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mekong Basin, Laos. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens pallegoixi (Sowerby, 1867)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (30 + 4 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Mun River, Thailand. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, SRA
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens rolfbrandti (Jeratthitikul & Panha in Jeratthitikul et al., 2019)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (4 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Known from the Huai Luang River (Mekong Basin) in Thailand, and Laos. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, H3
other links: MolluscaBase

Lens semmelinki (Martens, 1891)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Borneo and Sumatra. (East Asia)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Uniandra semmelinki)
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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