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30 December 2011 |
Mussel of the Month
The January 2012 Mussel of the Month is Prohyriopsis stolata. Prohyriopsis is a monotypic genus known only from Sumatra.
ZMB 51795. Aus dem Danau Baru, Indragiri, O. Sumatra (type).
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Prohyriopsis stolata is another freshwater mussel about which we know just about nothing. Martens (1900) described it as Unio stolata from Lake Danau-Baru in Sumatra, Haas (1914) made up a new genus name for it, and since then it has barely been acknowledged.
Unfortunately, this amount of data is typical of many taxa from the Malay Archipelago. |
Classification:
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Order Unionoida
Family UNIONIDAE Rafinesque, 1820
Subfamily GONIDEINAE Ortmann, 1916
Genus Prohyriopsis Haas, 1914
Species Prohyriopsis stolata (von Martens, 1900) |
To find out what there is to know about Prohyriopsis, check out:
- Haas, F. 1914. Prohyriopsis, neue Gattung für Unio stolatus Marts. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 46: 76-78.
- von Martens, E. 1900. Ueber Land- und Süsswasser-Schnecken aus Sumatra. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 32: 3-18.
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