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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina | Cristaria

species Cristaria clessini (Kobelt, 1879): synonymy
     10 specimens + 3 Genbank vouchers

Dipsas plicata var. clessini Kobelt, 1879
Kobelt, 1879. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 11: 429, pl. 15.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814)

Cristaria (s.s.) herculeaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria plicataHabe (1977), Kondo (2008), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020)
Cristaria clessiniLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)

Dipsas plicata var. japonica Kobelt, 1879
Kobelt, 1879. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 11: 429, pl. 17.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814)
Type(s): TYPE SMF_13165, Sandai, Japan.

Cristaria (s.s.) spatiosaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata spatiosaHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataHabe (1977), Kondo (2008)
Cristaria clessiniLopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cristaria (s.s.) herculeaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (s.s.) spatiosaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Dipsas plicatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria (s.s.) plicata spatiosaHaas (1969)
Cristaria plicataHabe (1977), Kondo (2008), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020)
Cristaria clessiniLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)

 
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