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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina

genus Tchangsinaia Starobogatov, 1970: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Tchangsinaia Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov in Popova & Starobogatov, 1970. Moll. Kyzylgirsk. Svity. Gornogo: 62.
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 66, 285.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cuneopsis Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio pisciculus Heude, 1874 (orig. desig.) = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Arcuneopsis Wu et al., 2022
Huang, Dai & Wu in Wu et al., 2022. Zool. Scripta 51: [10], supplem.
Type species: Unio pisciculus Heude, 1874 (orig. desig.) = Tchangsinaia piscicula

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

CuneopsisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), ... Wu et al. (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Lopes-Lima et al. (2024)
UnioSimpson (1914)
Cuneopsis (Tchangsinaia)Starobogatov (1970)
ArcuneopsisWu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
TchangsinaiaDai et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), ... Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)

 
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