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

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species Lepidodesma languilati (Heude, 1874): synonymy
     10 specimens + 7 Genbank vouchers

Unio languilati Heude, 1874
Heude, 1874. J. de Conch. 22: 116.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 7, fig. 17.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3381, Riviere de Province du Nanking, Chine Centrale.

Lepidodesma languilatiSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Kuroda (1939), ... Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lepidodesma languilatum [sic]Haas (1969)
Lepidodesma languilata [sic]Huang et al. (2002)
Lepidodesma langwilati [sic]Hu (2005)

Cristaria megadesma Martens, 1875
Martens, 1875. S.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 1875: 3.
Martens, 1875. Malak. Blatt. 22: 187.
Martens, 1875. Novit. Conch. 4: 152, pl. 135, fig. 1.

Lepidodesma languilatiSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013)

Lepidodesma languilata Haas, 1969
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N446.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1058.
Huang et al., 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 360.
(error for Unio languilati Heude, 1874)

Unio longuilati Habe, 1977
‘Heude’ Habe, 1977. Mollusc. Japan: 117.
(error for Unio languilati Heude, 1874)

Lepidodesma langwilati Hu, 2005
Hu, 2005. Chinese J. Zool. 40: [3].
(error for Unio languilati Heude, 1874)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lepidodesma languilatiSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Kuroda (1939), ... Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lepidodesma languilatum [sic]Haas (1969)
Lepidodesma languilata [sic]Huang et al. (2002)
Lepidodesma langwilati [sic]Hu (2005)

 
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