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

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Publication Liu et al. (2022): summary
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Complete Citation

Liu, X., Y. Liu, R. Wu, D.T. Zanatta, M. Lopes-Lima et al. 2022. Systematics, distribution, biology, and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in China. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 32(5): 859-895. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula fibrosa = Scriptolamprotula fibrosa

Aculamprotula grandidens = Scriptolamprotula grandidens

Aculamprotula nodulosa = Scriptolamprotula nodulosa

Aculamprotula scripta = Scriptolamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula tientsinensis = Scriptolamprotula tientsinensis

Aculamprotula tortuosa = Scriptolamprotula tortuosa

Aculamprotula zonata = Scriptolamprotula zonata

Acuticosta chinensis

Acuticosta ovata

Acuticosta retiaria = Pseudoacuticosta retiaria

Acuticosta sichuanica = Inversidens sichuanica

Acuticosta trisulcata = Inversidens trisulcata

Amuranodonta kijaensis

Anemina arcaeformis = Anemina harlandi

Anemina euscaphys = Anemina harlandi

Anemina fluminea = Anemina harlandi

Anemina globosula = Anemina harlandi

Buldowskia shadini

Cristaria beirensis = Cristaria plicata

Cristaria plicata

Cristaria radiata

Cuneopsis capitatus (Heude, 1874) = Pseudocuneopsis capitata

Cuneopsis celtiformis

Cuneopsis heudei

Cuneopsis kiangsiensis

Cuneopsis pisciculus = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Cuneopsis rufescens

Diaurora aurorea

Lanceolaria cylindrica

Lanceolaria eucylindrica

Lanceolaria gladiola

Lanceolaria grayii

Lanceolaria lanceolata

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha

Lanceolaria triformis

Lanceolaria yueyingae

Lepidodesma aligera

Lepidodesma languilati

Middendorffinaia mongolica
+ Middendorffinaia (s.s.) ussuriensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973

Nodularia douglasiae

Nodularia nuxpersicae

Nodularia persculpta

Pletholophus tenuis
+ Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834

Pseudobaphia biesiana

Rhombuniopsis fultoni

Rhombuniopsis superstes = Leoparreysia superstes

Rhombuniopsis tauriformis

Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Schistodesmus spinosus

Sinanodonta angula

Sinanodonta lucida

 
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