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

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species Physunio modelli Brandt, 1974: synonymy
     56 specimens + 46 Genbank vouchers

Physunio modelli Brandt, 1974
Brandt, 1974. Arch. Moll. 105: 297, pl. 25, fig. 62.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_220841, Thailand: Maenam Pong at Pong Nip Dam; Prov. Kon Kaen.

Physunio modelliBrandt (1974), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Contradens sp.Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Konopleva et al. (2017)
Physunio cf. modelliBolotov et al. (2017)
Contradens sp. 1Bolotov et al. (2017)
Physunio sp. ‘Contradens’Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020)
Physunio sp. 2Wu et al. (2021)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Physunio modelliBrandt (1974), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Contradens sp.Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Konopleva et al. (2017)
Physunio cf. modelliBolotov et al. (2017)
Contradens sp. 1Bolotov et al. (2017)
Physunio sp. ‘Contradens’Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020)
Physunio sp. 2Wu et al. (2021)

 
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