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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini | Ptychorhynchus

species Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874): specimens
     3 available nominal species synonyms (6 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Ptychorhynchus ptisteri [sic] — Sano et al. (2017), Wang et al. (2018)

Range

Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) river, China, south into Vietnam.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

China

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU125. (28S, COI) China: Hunan, Xiangyin

16_NCU_XPWU_SU126. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Gan River

16_NCU_XPWU_SU127. (28S, COI) China: Jiangxi, Gan River

NCUBM_20180243. (COI, ND1) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China

NCUBM_20180244. (COI, ND1) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China

Mp_2657_Ppf. (16S) Jiangxi, China

SXNU_22110401 (XJ_01). (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_22111505 (XJ_05). (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_22111506 (XJ_06). (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_22111507 (XJ_07). (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)