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

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Publication Chen et al. (2025): summary
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Complete Citation

Chen, Z.-G., Y.T. Dai, X. Liu, Y.-X. Ge & X.-P. Wu. 2025. A recently extinct new genus and species of freshwater mussel from Sichuan, China (Bivalvia: Unionida). The Indochina Entomologist 1(95): 961-968. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Gigaunio Chen et al., 2025
Chen, Dai, Liu & Wu in Chen et al., 2025. Indochina Entom. 1(95): 962.
Type species: Gigaunio sichuanensis Chen et al., 2025 (orig. desig.) = Gigaunio sichuanensis

Attributed Nominal Species

Gigaunio sichuanensis Chen et al., 2025
Chen, Dai, Liu & Wu in Chen et al., 2025. Indochina Entom. 1(95): 963, figs. 1-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) NCUXPWU_2412001, Anxihe River, Yangou Village, Danling County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, China, 103°25'26″E, 29°58'24″N.

Taxonomic Opinions

Acuticosta sichuanica Zeng & Liu, 1989 = Inversidens sichuanica

Gibbosula crassa (Wood, 1815)

Gigaunio sichuanensis Z.-G. Chen, Y.-T. Dai, X. Liu & X.-P. Wu, sp. nov.

Lamprotula triclava (Heude, 1877)

Nodularia douglasiae (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Pseudobaphia biesiana (Heude, 1877)

Pseudocuneopsis sichuanensis Huang, Dai, Chen & Wu, 2022

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)

 
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