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

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species Pronodularia japanensis (Lea, 1859): synonymy
     66 specimens + 27 Genbank vouchers

Unio japanensis Lea, 1859
Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 153.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 244, pl. 36, fig. 123.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1965181 (by R.I. Johnson, 1971: 85), Japan.

Nodularia (s.s.) japanensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis japanensisHaas (1911)
Inversidens japanensisKira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), Habe (1977), Kondo (1982), ... Kongim et al. (2015), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Amaro et al. (2017), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Unio japonensis [sic]Zhadin (1965)
Inversidens japanensis japanensisHaas (1969)
Pronodularia japanensisStarobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Kondo et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Inversidena [sic] japanensisHabe (1991)
Unio japanensisHuang et al. (2013), Burzynski et al. (2017)
“Unio” japanensisZhou et al. (2016)
Pronodluaria [sic] japanensisWu et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2018)
Pronodularia cf. japanensisLopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Pronodularia japanensis Lopes-Lima et al., 2020
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: fig. 16 [as ‘Pronodularia cf. japanensis 3]. [in part]
(reference to Unio japanensis Lea, 1859)

Pronodularia japanensisKondo (2023)

Unio japonensis Zhadin, 1965
‘Lea’ Zhadin, 1965. Moll. USSR: 246.
(error for Unio japanensis Lea, 1859)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) japanensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) japanensis japanensisHaas (1911)
Inversidens japanensisKira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), Habe (1977), Kondo (1982), ... Kongim et al. (2015), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Amaro et al. (2017), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Unio japonensis [sic]Zhadin (1965)
Inversidens japanensis japanensisHaas (1969)
Pronodularia japanensisStarobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Kondo et al. (2007), Kondo (2008), Shirai et al. (2010), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Inversidena [sic] japanensisHabe (1991)
Unio japanensisHuang et al. (2013), Burzynski et al. (2017)
“Unio” japanensisZhou et al. (2016)
Pronodluaria [sic] japanensisWu et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2018)
Pronodularia cf. japanensisLopes-Lima et al. (2020)

 
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