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

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

Wu, R.-W., X.-J. Liu, S. Ouyang & X.-P. Wu. 2020. Comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of three Lamprotula (Bivalvia: Unionidae) species: insight into the shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA for recently diverged species delimitation. Malacologia 63(1): 51-66. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula coreana (Martens, 1886)

Aculamprotula fibrosa

Aculamprotula scripta (Heude, 1875)

Aculamprotula tientsinensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)

Aculamprotula tortuosa (Lea, 1865)

Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877)

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)

Cuneopsis capitatus (Heude, 1874) = Pseudocuneopsis capitata

Cuneopsis heudei (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis pisciculus (Heude, 1874) = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Gibbosula rochechouartii

Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula cornuumlunae (Heude, 1883)

Lamprotula gottschei = Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Lamprotula leaii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Lamprotula scripta = Lamprotula caveata

Lampsilis cardium

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera margaritifera

Nodularia douglasiae (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Potomida littoralis

Pronodularia japanensis (Lea, 1859)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)

Sinanodonta lucida (Heude, 1877)

Sinohyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852)

Sinohyriopsis schlegelii (Martens, 1861)

Solenaia carinatus (Heude, 1877) = Sinosolenaia carinata

Solenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877) = Sinosolenaia oleivora

Toxolasma parvum (Barnes, 1823)

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Utterbackia peninsularis Bogan & Hoeh, 1995

Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Conrad, 1836)