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

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species Cristaria bellua (Morelet, 1866): synonymy
     32 specimens + 8 Genbank vouchers

Anodonta bellua Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. Rev. Mag. Zool. 18: 167.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 331 [as ‘Dipsas’].
Type(s): LECTOTYPE MCZ_175610, Lake Touli-Sap, Cambodia, Indo China.

Cristaria (s.s.) belluaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata plicataHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataBrandt (1974), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
Cristaria belluaDang et al. (1980), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cristaria (s.s.) belluaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata plicataHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataBrandt (1974), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
Cristaria belluaDang et al. (1980), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

 
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