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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina | Sinanodonta

species Sinanodonta elliptica (Heude, 1878): synonymy
     1 specimen + 15 Genbank vouchers

Anodon elliptica Heude, 1878
Heude, 1878. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (4): pl. 27, fig. 58.

Anodonta woodianaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. ellipticaZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana ellipticaLiu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta ellipticaDang et al. (1980), Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Douda et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodianaBogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana ellipticaProzorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodianaHe & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta woodiana Bolotov et al., 2016
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2016. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 67: 60, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Vikhrev et al., 2017. Trop. Conserv. Sci. 10: 4, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Bespalaya et al., 2018. Limnologica 69: 97, Table 1 [as ‘lineage D’]. [in part]
Konečný et al., 2018. Evol. Appl. 11: Table S1 [as ‘lineage H’]. [in part]
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834)

Sinanodonta sp. 1 Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta lineage DKondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta joreti Huang et al., 2019
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1.
(misidentified reference to Anodon joreti Heude, 1878)

Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Sinanodonta pacifica Huang et al., 2019
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Anodon pacifica Heude, 1878)

Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bogan et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta woodianaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pteranodon) woodiana var. ellipticaZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta woodiana ellipticaLiu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta ellipticaDang et al. (1980), Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Douda et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta (s.s.) woodianaBogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta woodiana ellipticaProzorova et al. (2005), Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodianaHe & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta lineage DKondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta woodiana spp. complex 2Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta cf. ellipticaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2022), Bogan et al. (2023)

 
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