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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!

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini

genus Ptychorhynchus Simpson, 1900: species
     2 available nominal genus synonyms | cladomics

Ptychorhynchus murinum (Heude, 1883)
syonymy (9 available, 11 total) | specimens (7)
Range: Described from the Yangtze River, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874)
syonymy (3 available, 6 total) | specimens (5 + 10 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) river, China, south into Vietnam. (East Asia)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, mtGenome, ND1
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
other links: MolluscaBase

Ptychorhynchus schoedei (Haas, 1930)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Hainan Island, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

Ptychorhynchus schomburgianum (Heude, 1885)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Reported from the Yangtze River and Hainan Island, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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