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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 Beringiana japonica (Clessin, 1874): specimens
4 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Anodonta woodiana japonica — Graf (2007)
Anodonta japonica — Kondo (2008)
Kunashiria japonica — Sayenko et al. (2009), Kantor et al. (2010)
Kunashiria haconensis — Sayenko et al. (2009), Kantor et al. (2010)
Sinanodonta woodiana — IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Beringiana japonica — Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sano et al. (2022), Bulakhova et al. (2023), Bogan et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Douda et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Beringiana haconensis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta japonica — Sano et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Kano et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020)
Sinanodonta lauta — Sano et al. (2017)
Kunashiria japonica japonica — Bogatov (2022)
Kunashiria japonica haconensis — Bogatov (2022)

Range: Japan, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, eastern Asia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Japan
MNHN_MP_4143 Japon	SMF_3681 ? Hakone-See ? Japan	SMF_3683 Hakone-See Japan
MNHN_MP_4179 Hirosaki	MNHN_MP_4193 Aomory	MNHN_MP_4184 Japon
MNHN_MP_4310 Japan	UMMZ_23482 Japan
unknown
MNHN_MP_4303 [no locality available - Asia]

Genbank Vouchers

Japan

Mp_4138_FUKUNUMA_22 (COI, 16S, 28S) Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan

MHS_SJSaitNam4 (COI, 28S) Namekawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0411, 139.2229)

IDEA_shell321 (28S) Japan: Ibaraki, Kasama city

MHS_BJFK-01 (COI) Mano River, Fukushima, Japan (37.7027, 140.9355)

IDEA_shell320 (28S) Japan: Ibaraki, Kasama city

IDEA_Shell015 (28S) Japan

IDEA_Shell013 (28S) Japan

MHS_BJMG-02 (COI) Kitakami River, Miyagi, Japan (38.7591, 141.063)

MHS_BJST-01 (COI) Arakawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0699, 139.372)

MHS_BJMG-01 (COI) Kitakami River, Miyagi, Japan (38.7591, 141.063)

Mp_4311_fk144 (COI) Ibaraki, Japan

IDEA_Shell064 (28S) Japan:Miyagi, Kurihara city, Tsukidate

IDEA_Shell014 (28S) Japan

MHS_SJapSName (COI) Namekawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0411, 139.2229)

MHS_BJST-02 (COI) Arakawa River, Saitama, Japan (36.0807, 139.3655)

MHS_BJIT-01 (COI) Kitakami River, Iwate, Japan (39.0069, 141.1104)

CIIMAR_BIV02705 (COI)

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