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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 pacifica (Heude, 1878): specimens
     9 available nominal species synonyms (12 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta woodiana woodiana — Graf (2007)
Sinanodonta puerorum — Kantor et al. (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Anodonta woodiana pacifica — Ouyang et al. (2011), Xiong et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana pacifica — Zieritz et al. (2012)
Sinanodonta woodiana — He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Kondakov et al. (2020)
Anodonta pacifica — Soliman et al. (2016)
Sinanodonta sp. 1 — Froufe et al. (2017)
Sinanodonta cf. gibba — Kondakov et al. (2018)
Sinanodonta lineage B — Kondakov et al. (2018), Bauer et al. (2021)
Sinanodonta joreti — Huang et al. (2019)
Sinanodonta pacifica — Huang et al. (2019), Douda et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Bolotov et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Sinanodonta sp. 2 — Huang et al. (2019)

Range

Native range in eastern China and Taiwan. Widely introduced in East Asia (Japan and Myanmar to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines) as well as the USA, Central America, and Iraq.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Cambodia

China

Vietnam

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU158. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County

16_NCU_XPWU_SU159. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County

16_NCU_XPWU_SU160. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County

16_NCU_XPWU_SU161. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Jinxi County

16_NCU_XPWU_SU162. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Poyang Lake

Costa Rica

Mp_4365_CR1. (COI) Costa Rica: Guanacaste (10.335556 N 85.155278 W)

Mp_4365_CR2. (COI) Costa Rica: Guanacaste (10.335556 N 85.155278 W)

Mp_4365_CR3. (COI) Costa Rica: Guanacaste (10.335556 N 85.155278 W)

Japan

MHS_SLIB-02. (COI) Kasumigaura Lake, Ibaraki, Japan (36.0302, 140.3067)

MHS_SLAC-01. (COI) Kiso River , Aichi, Japan (35.3778, 136.9302)

Mp_4311_Yh1-1. (COI) Shinjo, Yamagata, Japan

MHS_SLCB-01. (COI) Tone River , Chiba, Japan (36.0555, 139.8376)

Mp_4311_ku1-2 (S164). (COI) Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan

Myanmar

RMBH_biv_980_1. (COI) Myanmar: a section of the Lashio River near Lashio Hot Springs, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9933, 97.7752)

RMBH_biv_980_2. (COI) Myanmar: a section of the Lashio River near Lashio Hot Springs, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9933, 97.7752)

RMBH_biv_980_4. (COI) Myanmar: a section of the Lashio River near Lashio Hot Springs, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9933, 97.7752)

RMBH_biv_984_1. (COI) Myanmar: oxbow lake of the Lashio River near Lashio, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9926, 97.8349)

RMBH_biv_984_2. (COI) Myanmar: oxbow lake of the Lashio River near Lashio, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9926, 97.8349)

RMBH_biv_984_8. (COI) Myanmar: oxbow lake of the Lashio River near Lashio, Irrawaddy Basin (22.9926, 97.8349)

Philippines

Mp_4311_Pili1. (COI) Philippines

Taiwan

Mp_4311_seu966. (COI) Taipei, Taiwan, China

Mp_4311_seu961. (COI) Yilan, Taiwan, China

USA

CIIMAR_BIV02731. (COI) Franklin Pond, New Jersey, USA, Delaware basin (40.54703, -74.91608)

CIIMAR_BIV02732. (COI) Franklin Pond, New Jersey, USA, Delaware basin (40.54703, -74.91608)

CIIMAR_BIV02733. (COI) Franklin Pond, New Jersey, USA, Delaware basin (40.54703, -74.91608)