MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Inversiunio reinianus specimens

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

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This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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species Inversiunio reinianus (Kobelt, 1879): specimens
2 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Inversiunio reinianus — Graf (2007), Kondo et al. (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Kondo (2008), ..., Sayenko et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Inversunio reiniana — Bogan (2010)

Range: Endemic to the Lake Biwa Basin, Japan.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Japan
ANSP_244859 Lake Biwa, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_244867 Lake Biwa, Honshu, Japan	ANSP_306056 Lake Biwa, Japan
USNM_346081 Lake Biwa, Omi, Japan	ANSP_320804 off peninsula, N of Shino naka Harbor in Lake Biwa, Kusata Shi, Shiga Ren, Honsu, Japan	BMNH_85-12-10-8-9 Lake Biwa
USNM_346092 Lake Biwa, Omi, Japan	UMMZ_109704 Lake Biwa, Japan	UMMZ_109705 Lake Biwa, Omi [=Shiga] Japan
UMMZ_109706 Omi, Japan	SMF_168229 Biwa See [auf Honshū], Japan [Shiga]	UMMZ_184039 Lake Otsu, Biwa Province, Japan
USNM_172674 Biwa Sea, Japan	SMF_3639 Yamashiro, Japan	SMF_3645 Biwa-See, Japan
ANSP_49617 Kamakura, Japan	SMF_194016 Lake Biwa [auf Honshū], Shiga-Pref., Japan	ANSP_86439 L. Biwa, Omi, Japan

Genbank Vouchers

Japan

Mp_4138_Ir07-k11 (COI, 16S, 28S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

Mp_4138_Ir07-k10 (COI, 16S, 28S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

Mp_4138_Ir07-k14 (COI, 16S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

Mp_4138_Ir07-k12 (COI, 16S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

Mp_4138_Ir07-k13 (COI, 16S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

MHS_MIr-sig02 (COI, 28S) Biwa Lake, Shiga, Japan (35.1127, 136.0311)

Mp_4138_Ir07-01 (COI, 16S) Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan

MHS_InvReiS1 (COI) Biwa Lake, Shiga, Japan (35.1581, 136.0582)

IDEA_shell228 (28S) Japan: Shiga, Takashima city, Lake Biwa

IDEA_shell229 (28S) Japan: Shiga, Takashima city, Lake Biwa

Mp_4189_487 (COI) Japan, Honshu Is., Shiga Pref., Biwa Lake at Okishima, Oumihachiman City

Mp_4189_485 (COI) Japan, Honshu Is., Shiga Pref., Biwa Lake at Okishima, Oumihachiman City

Mp_4189_478 (COI) Japan, Honshu Is., Shiga Pref., Biwa Lake at Okishima, Oumihachiman City

Page updated: 10:05:35 Tue 01 Jul 2025

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