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

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Publication Sayenko et al. (2005): summary
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Complete Citation

Sayenko, E.M., T.A. Pearce & E.K. Shea. 2005. Glochidial morphology of selected species of the genera Cristaria Schumacher, 1817 and Sinanodonta Modell, 1945 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Far Eastern Russia. American Malacological Bulletin 20(1/2): 11-21. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anemina arcaeformis

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodonta kennerlyi Lea, 1860

Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea, 1834)

Cristaria discoidea (Lea, 1834) = Pletholophus tenuis

Cristaria herculea (Middendorff, 1847) = Cristaria plicata

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1815)

Cristaria spatiosa (Clessin, 1875) = Cristaria plicata

Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817 = Cristaria plicata

Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829) = Platynaias compressa

Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lasmigona holstonia (Lea, 1838) = Alasminota holstonia

Lasmigona subviridis (Conrad, 1835) = Platynaias subviridis

Pyganodon cataracta cataracta (Say, 1817) = Pyganodon cataracta

Pyganodon grandis grandis (Say, 1829) = Pyganodon grandis

Sinanodonta amurensis Moskvicheva, 1973 = Sinanodonta schrenkii

Sinanodonta calipygos (Kobelt, 1879)

Sinanodonta likharevi Moskvicheva, 1973 = Sinanodonta schrenkii

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)
+ Anodonta lauta Martens, 1877
+ Anodontites lautus tumens Haas, 1910

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta lauta

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) = Sinanodonta tumens

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)