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

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Publication Dai et al. (2025): taxonomic opinions
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Complete Citation

Dai, Y.-T., Z.-G. Chen, S. Ouyang, X.-C. Huang & X.-P. Wu. 2025. A new tribe, genus, and species of freshwater mussel from the Changjiang River Basin in China (Bivlavia, Unionidae, Unioninae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(2): 779-790. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula coreana (Martens, 1886)

Aculamprotula fibrosa (Heude, 1877)

Aculamprotula polysticta (Heude, 1877)

Aculamprotula scripta (Heude, 1875)

Aculamprotula tientsinensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)

Aculamprotula tortuosa (Lea, 1865)

Acuticosta chinensis (Lea, 1868)

Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Amuranodonta kijaensis Moskvicheva, 1973

Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877)

Anemina euscaphys (Heude, 1879) = Anemina arcaeformis

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819)

Beringiana beringiana (Middendorff, 1851)

Chamberlainia hainesiana (Lea, 1856)

Coelatura aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1823)

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Cuneopsis celtiformis (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis demangei Haas, 1929

Cuneopsis heudei (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis rufescens (Heude, 1874)

Diaurora aurorea (Heude, 1883)

Echyridella menziesii (Gray, 1843)

Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786)

Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875)

Globunio mirificus Chen, Dai, Huang & Wu, sp. nov.

Hyriopsis bialata Simpson, 1900

Indonaia andersoniana (Nevill, 1877)

Inversidens rentianensis Wu & Wu, 2021

Inversiunio reinianus (Kobelt, 1879)

Inversiunio yanagawensis (Kondo, 1982)

Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula gottschei-Schistodesmus.sp [sic] = Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Lamprotula leaii (Gray, 1833)

Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Lampsilis ornata (Conrad, 1835)

Lampsilis powellii (Lea, 1852)

Lampsilis siliquoideus (Barnes, 1823) = Lampsilis siliquoidea

Lanceolaria gladiola (Heude, 1877)

Lanceolaria grayii (Gray, 1833)
+ Unio grayanus Lea, 1834

Lanceolaria lanceolata (Lea, 1856)

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha (Martens, 1861)

Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829) = Platynaias compressa

Leaunio lienosa (Conrad, 1834) = Leaunio lienosus

Lens contradens (Lea, 1838)

Lepidodesma languilati (Heude, 1874)

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Microcondylaea bonellii (Férussac, 1827)

Monodontina vondembuschiana (Lea, 1840) = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)

Nodularia breviconcha Lee, Kim, Bogan & Kondo, 2020

Nodularia douglasiae (Gray, 1833)

Nodularia fusiformans Wu & Liu, 2024

Nodularia nuxpersicae (Dunker, 1848)

Parreysia nagpoorensis (Lea, 1860)

Parvasolenaia rivularis (Heude, 1877)

Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843)

Pilsbryoconcha exilis (Lea, 1838)

Pletholophus tenuis (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834)

Popenaias popeii (Lea, 1857)

Postolata guangxiensis Dai, Huang, Guo & Wu, 2023

Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)

Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820)

Potamilus streckersoni

Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798)

Pronodularia japanensis (Lea, 1859)

Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler, 1835)

Pseudocuneopsis capitata (Heude, 1874)

Pseudocuneopsis sichuanensis Huang, Dai, Chen & Wu , 2022

Pseudocuneopsis yangshuoensis Wu & Liu, 2023

Pseudocuneopsis yemaoi Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu, 2024

Pseudunio marocanus (Pallary, 1918)

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Rectidens sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852)

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)

Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900)

Sinanodonta lucida (Heude, 1877)

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)

Sinohyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852)

Sinohyriopsis schlegelii (Martens, 1861)

Sinosolenaia carinata (Heude, 1877)

Sinosolenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877)

Tchangsinaia piscicula (Heude, 1874)

Toxolasma parvum (Barnes, 1823)

Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788

Unio delphinus Spengler, 1793

Unio elongatulus

Unio mancus

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831)

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Utterbackia peninsularis Bogan & Hoeh, 1995

Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Conrad, 1836)