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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 Unio gontierii Bourguignat, 1856: specimens
13 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Unio crassus gontieri — Graf (2007), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017)
Crassiana musiva gontieri — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium colchicum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana mengrelica — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium raddei — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana crassa sieversi — Kantor et al. (2010)
Unio stepanoffi — Kantor et al. (2010)
Eolymnium koutaisianum — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana gregorii — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana sobriewskii — Kantor et al. (2010)
Crassiana stevenianiformis — Kantor et al. (2010)
Unio crassus — IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2018)
Unio (Eolymnium) colchicus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) mengrelicus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) raddei — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) byzantinus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) musivus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Eolymnium) koutaisiana — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) gregorii — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) sobrievskii — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio (Crassiana) stevenianiformis — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio mingrelicus var. sobrievskii — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio gontierii — Lopes-Lima et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024)

Range: Streams draining to the Black and Caspian Seas in Ukraine to Georgia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

There are no specimens in the MUSSELpdb for this species.

Genbank Vouchers

Georgia

CIIMAR_BIV1534 (COI, mtGenome, SRA) Inkiti (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.179089, 40.319573)

CIIMAR_BIV1535 (COI) Inkiti (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.179089, 40.319573)

RMBH_biv_479_6 (COI) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184)

RMBH_biv_239_5 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_479_3 (COI) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184)

RMBH_biv_479_5 (COI) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184)

RMBH_biv_239_10 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_7 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_8 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_1 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_479_1 (COI) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184)

RMBH_biv_479_4 (COI) Bzyb River (Bzyb Basin), Georgia (43.187713, 40.291184)

RMBH_biv_239_11 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_12 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_2 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_9 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

RMBH_biv_239_6 (COI) Rioni River (Rioni Basin), Georgia (42.223328, 42.695068)

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