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species Unionetta fabagina (Deshayes in Deshayes & Jullien, 1876): specimens
3 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Unionetta broti — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Unionetta fabagina — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Ng et al. (2016), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024)

Range

Mekong River in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map

Cambodia

MNHN-IM-2000-1694 Mekong a Sombor, Cambodge	MNHN-IM-2000-1694 Mekong a Sombor, Cambodge	UF_507399 Mekong River, 5.17 miles upstream of Mekong and Sekong Confluence. CA16-05. 13.59515, 106.01447
MNHN-IM-2000-1652 Rivages du Mekong a Sombor, Cambodge	MNHN-IM-2000-1652 Rivages du Mekong a Sombor, Cambodge	MNHN-IM-2000-1652 Rivages du Mekong a Sombor, Cambodge
UF_507378 Tonle Srepok River, major bridge crossing on road from Stung Treng to Ban Lung. Srae Angkrorng, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. CA16-01. 13.44339, 106.60329

Laos

ANSP_336450
Khong Is. at Muang Khong, Sithandone Prove

SMF_3599
Munog-Sun, od Nam-Ou, Laos

Thailand

SMF_193871 Huai Mae Un at Sri songkram, Nakon Panom Prov.	SMF_220833 Maenam Songkram at Sri Songkram	ANSP_120637 Siam
ANSP_120637 Siam	SMRL_5872 Songkram River at Sri Songkram, Thailand	BMNH_MP_D253 Thailand: Huai Mae Un at Sri Songkram, Nakon Panom Province
SMF_198393 Thailand: Mekong at Ban Dan

unknown

MNHN_MP_0119
[no locality available - Asia] Published type locality “Hab. Vallée du Mékong, sur les bords du rivage de ce fleuve (Molleur).”

Vietnam

MNHN IM-2014-6879
Vallee du Mekong

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Cambodia

UF_507399 (ICH-00489). (28S: MH350979, COI: MH350930, go to Genbank) Cambodia, Mekong River, 5.17 miles upstream of Mekong and Sekong Confluence (13.595154, 106.014469).

UF_507399 (ICH-00490). (28S: MH350980, COI: MH350931, go to Genbank) ditto.

UF_507399 (ICH-00491). (28S: MH350981, COI: MH350932, go to Genbank) ditto.