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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!

The nominal species (available and otherwise) in this synonymy are listed by usage rather than strictly by publication date. The primary sorting order is by the most recent year (since 1969) that the species name was treated as valid, and then nominal species are sorted secondarily by publication year.

The taxonomic history of the valid species (since 1900) is listed at the bottom of the page.

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Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina | Anemina

species Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877): nominal species
     10 specimens available.

Anodon arcaeformis Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 19, fig. 40.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3418, Kiang sou, Chine.

Anodon arcaeformisHeude (1877)
Anodonta arcaeformisNeumayr (1899), Simpson (1900), Martens (1905), Simpson (1914), ..., Fukata & Iigo (2020), Bauer et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Whelan et al. (2023)
Anodonta (Haasiella) arcaeformisZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Anemina) arcaeformisHaas (1969), Habe (1977)
Anodonta arcaeformis arcaeformisLiu et al. (1979)
Anemina arcaeformisHabe (1991), Korniushin (1998), Sayenko et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), ..., Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Anodonta araeformisBába (2000)
Buldowskia arcaeformisProzorova et al. (2005)
Anemina (s.s.) arcaeformisVinarski & Kantor (2016)

Anodon euscaphys Heude, 1879
Heude, 1879, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (5): pl. 35, fig. 68.
Type(s): TYPE USNM_126431, Tchen-kiang, Kiang-sou.

Anodon euscaphysHeude (1879)
Anodonta euscaphysSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Graf (2007), ..., Wang et al. (2018), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Whelan et al. (2023)
Anodonta (Haasiella) euscaphysZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta enscaphysBába (2000)
Anemina euscaphysProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ..., Hou et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Anemina arcaeformisWu et al. (2025)

Anodon fluminea Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 20, fig. 42.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3430, Riviere Hoai, Ngan Houe, Chine.

Anodon flumineaHeude (1877)
Anodonta flumineaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Hu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anemina flumineaProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)
Anemina arcaeformisWu et al. (2025)

Anodon globosula Heude, 1878
Heude, 1878, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (4): pl. 25, fig. 54.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3410, Lac T’o, Ning-kno-foue, Chine Centrale.

Anodon globosulaHeude (1878)
Anodonta globosulaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Hu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anemina globosulaProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), ..., Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)
Anemina arcaeformisWu et al. (2025)

Anodon rivularis Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 20, fig. 44.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3372, Ngan Noue, Chine.

Anodon rivularisHeude (1877)
Anodonta rivularisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Anemina) arcaeformisHaas (1969)
Anodonta rivulariaLiu et al. (1980)
Sinanodonta rivularisProzorova et al. (2005)
Anemina arcaeformisKondo (2008), He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)
Sinanodonta rivulariaBogatov & Prozorova (2017)

Anodon torrentis Heude, 1878
Heude, 1878, Conch. Fluv. Nanking (4): pl. 29, fig. 61.

Anodon torrentisHeude (1878)
Anodonta flumineaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anemina flumineaHe & Zhuang (2013)

Anodonta heudei Neumayr, 1899
Neumayr, 1899, Wiss. Erg. Reise Szechény Ost-Asien 2: 647, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Anodonta heudeiNeumayr (1899), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta woodianaHaas (1920)
Anodonta (Anemina) arcaeformisHaas (1969)
Anemina arcaeformisHe & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Anodon globulosa Haas, 1969
‘Heude’ Haas, 1969, Das Tierreich 88: 355.
(error for Anodon globosula Heude, 1878)

Anodon globulosaHaas (1969)

Anodonta arcaefirmis Liu et al., 1980
‘Heude’ Liu et al., 1980, Acta Zool. Sinica 26(4): 366.
(error for Anodon arcaeformis Heude, 1877)

Anodonta arcaefirmisLiu et al. (1980)

Anodonta rivularia Liu et al., 1980
Liu et al., 1980, Acta Zool. Sinica 26(4): 366.
Bogatov & Prozorova, 2017, Biol. Bulletin 44(8): 927.
(error for Anodon rivularis Heude, 1877)

Anodonta rivulariaLiu et al. (1980)

Anodonta araeformis Bába, 2000
‘Hende’ [sic] Bába, 2000, Boll. Malac. 36(5-8): 133.
(error for Anodon arcaeformis Heude, 1877)

Anodonta araeformisBába (2000)

Anodonta enscaphys Bába, 2000
‘Hende’ [sic] Bába, 2000, Boll. Malac. 36(5-8): 133.
(error for Anodon euscaphys Heude, 1879)

Anodonta enscaphysBába (2000)

Anemina globosula Wu et al., 2018
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Wu et al., 2018, PLoS One 13(8), e0200956: 4.
Huang et al., 2019, MPE 130: Table S1.
(reference to Anodon globosula Heude, 1878)

Anemina globosulaWu et al. (2018)
Anemina arcaeformisLopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Anemina euscaphys Huang et al., 2019
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Huang et al., 2019, MPE 130: Table S1. [in part]
Whelan et al., 2023, Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 198(2): Table S1. [in part]
(reference to Anodon euscaphys Heude, 1879)

Anemina euscaphysHuang et al. (2019)
Anemina arcaeformisLopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta arcaeformisSimpson (1900), Martens (1905), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), ..., Fukata & Iigo (2020), Bauer et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Whelan et al. (2023)
Anodonta flumineaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Hu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)
Anodonta rivularisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta globosulaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Hu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)
Anodonta euscaphysSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Liu et al. (1979), Graf (2007), ..., Wang et al. (2018), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Whelan et al. (2023)
Anodonta heudeiSimpson (1914)
Anodonta woodianaHaas (1920)
Anodonta (Haasiella) arcaeformisZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Haasiella) euscaphysZhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (Anemina) arcaeformisHaas (1969), Habe (1977)
Anodonta (s.s.) woodiana woodianaHaas (1969)
Anodon globulosaHaas (1969)
Anodonta arcaeformis arcaeformisLiu et al. (1979)
Anodonta rivulariaLiu et al. (1980)
Anodonta arcaefirmisLiu et al. (1980)
Anemina arcaeformisHabe (1991), Korniushin (1998), Sayenko et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), ..., Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Anodonta araeformisBába (2000)
Anodonta enscaphysBába (2000)
Buldowskia arcaeformisProzorova et al. (2005)
Anemina flumineaProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)
Sinanodonta rivularisProzorova et al. (2005)
Anemina globosulaProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), ..., Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)
Anemina euscaphysProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ..., Hou et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Anemina (s.s.) arcaeformisVinarski & Kantor (2016)
Sinanodonta rivulariaBogatov & Prozorova (2017)

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