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

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Publication Liu et al. (2020): summary
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Complete Citation

Liu, X., X. Yang, D.T. Zanatta, M. Lopes-Lima, A.E. Bogan et al. 2020. Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems early online: 1-12. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula fibrosa = Scriptolamprotula fibrosa

Aculamprotula nodulosa = Scriptolamprotula nodulosa

Aculamprotula scripta = Scriptolamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula tientsinensis = Scriptolamprotula tientsinensis

Aculamprotula tortuosa = Scriptolamprotula tortuosa

Aculamprotula zonata = Scriptolamprotula zonata

Acuticosta chinensis

Acuticosta jianghanensis = Nodularia douglasiae

Acuticosta ovata

Acuticosta retiaria = Pseudoacuticosta retiaria

Acuticosta sichuanica = Inversidens sichuanica

Acuticosta trisulcata = Inversidens trisulcata

Anemina arcaeformis = Anemina harlandi

Anemina euscaphys = Anemina harlandi

Anemina fluminea = Anemina harlandi

Anemina globosula = Anemina harlandi

Cristaria plicata

Cristaria radiata

Cuneopsis capitata = Pseudocuneopsis capitata

Cuneopsis celtiformis

Cuneopsis heudei

Cuneopsis kiangsiensis

Cuneopsis pisciculus = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Cuneopsis rufescens

Diaurora aurorea

Gibbosula polysticta = Scriptolamprotula polysticta

Gibbosula rochechouartii

Lamellidens liuovatus = Pseudocuneopsis liuovatus

Lamprotula bazini

Lamprotula caveata

Lamprotula chiai

Lamprotula cornuumlunae

Lamprotula elongata

Lamprotula gottschei = Lamprotula leaii

Lamprotula kouangensis

Lamprotula leaii

Lamprotula microsticta

Lamprotula paschalis

Lamprotula triclava

Lanceolaria eucylindrica

Lanceolaria gladiola

Lanceolaria grayii

Lanceolaria lanceolata

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha

Lanceolaria triformis

Lanceolaria yueyingae

Lepidodesma aligera

Lepidodesma languilati

Nodularia douglasiae

Nodularia persculpta

Pletholophus tenuis

Pseudodon aureus = Pseudobaphia aurea

Pseudodon nankingensis = Simpsonasus nankingensis

Pseudodon pinchonianus = Ptychorhynchus murinum

Pseudodon secundus = Simpsonasus nankingensis

Ptychorhynchus murinum

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri

Ptychorhynchus schomburgianum

Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Schistodesmus spinosus

Sinanodonta angula

Sinanodonta lucida

Sinanodonta qingyuani = Sinanodonta woodiana

Sinanodonta woodiana

Sinohyriopsis cumingii

Solenaia carinata = Sinosolenaia carinata

Solenaia oleivora = Sinosolenaia oleivora

Solenaia rivularis = Parvasolenaia rivularis

Solenaia triangularis (Heude, 1885) = Parvasolenaia triangularis

 
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