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

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Publication Hou et al. (2025): summary
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Hou, K., X. Wang, J. Jia, X. Liu, X. Wu et al. 2025. Cryptic species, mitochondrial phylogenomics and historical biogeography in the endemic genus Schistodesmus Schistodesmus (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from China. Invertebrate Systematics 39: 1-17, corrigendum. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Schistodesmus luqiaoensis Hou et al., 2025
Hou & Wu in Hou et al., 2025. Invert. Syst. 39: 11-12, figs. 2d, 3d.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) SXNU_23011503, Baima River, Luqiao Town, Shandong Province, China; 35.18005°N, 116.72033°E.

Schistodesmus shuibeiensis Hou et al., 2025
Hou et al., 2025. Invert. Syst. 39: fig. 4.
Hou et al., 2025. Invert. Syst. 39: corrigenda [as ‘xenyuensis’].
(error for Schistodesmus lampreyanus Huang et al., 2002)

Schistodesmus tongpenensis Hou et al., 2025
Hou & Wu in Hou et al., 2025. Invert. Syst. 39: 12-13, figs. 2e, 3e.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) SXNU_23032613, Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, China; 29.12025°N, 113.01506°E.

Schistodesmus xinyuensis Hou et al., 2025
Hou & Wu in Hou et al., 2025. Invert. Syst. 39: 11, fig. 2c, 3c.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) SXNU_24072503, Yuan River, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province; 114.90698°E, 27.79600°N.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula coreana

Aculamprotula polysticta

Aculamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula tientsinensis

Aculamprotula tortuosa

Alasmidonta varicosa

Anemina arcaeformis
+ Anodon euscaphys Heude, 1879

Anodonta anatina

Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta exulcerata

Anodonta nuttalliana

Beringiana fukuharai

Cristaria plicata

Cuneopsis celtiformis

Cuneopsis demangei

Cuneopsis heudei

Cuneopsis rufescens

Lampsilis cardium

Lasmigona complanata = Pterosyna complanata

Nodularia breviconcha

Nodularia dorri

Nodularia douglasiae

Nodularia dualobtusus = Nodularia dualobtusa

Nodularia fusiformans

Nodularia hanensis

Nodularia huana

Nodularia micheloti

Nodularia nipponensis

Nodularia nuxpersicae

Platynaias compressa

Prolasmidonta heterodon

Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudocuneopsis capitata

Pseudocuneopsis sichuanensis

Pyganodon grandis

Quadrula quadrula

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)
+ Lamprotula gottschei He et al., 2016

Schistodesmus luqiaoensis sp. nov.

Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900)

Schistodesmus tongpenensis sp. nov.
+ Schistodesmus lampreyanus Huang et al., 2019

Schistodesmus xinyuensis sp. nov.
+ Schistodesmus lampreyanus Huang et al., 2002

Sinanodonta lucida

Sinanodonta tumens

Sinanodonta woodiana

Tchangsinaia piscicula

Unio crassus

Unio delphinus

Unio elongatulus

Unio mancus

Unio pictorum

Unio tumidus

Utterbackia imbecillis

Utterbackia peninsularis

 
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