MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Ptychorhynchus pfisteri specimens

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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 Ptychorhynchus pfisteri (Heude, 1874): specimens
6 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Ptychorhynchus pfisteri — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), ..., Zhang et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Unio pfisteri inseparatus — IUCN (2012)
Ptychorhynchus ptisteri — Sano et al. (2017), Wang et al. (2018)

Range: Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) river, China, south into Vietnam.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

China
USNM_472403 Lu-tcheou-fou, China	MNHN_MP_3396 Riviere de Nanking, Chine Central	UMMZ_110526 canal at Wau, 100 mi upriver from Nanking, China
UMMZ_41013 canal at Wau, China	MNHN_MP_3426 Chine

Genbank Vouchers

China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU125 (COI, 28S) China: Hunan, Xiangyin

NCUBM_20180244 (COI, ND1) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU126 (COI, 28S) China: Jiangxi, Gan River

NCUBM_20180243 (COI, ND1) Dongting Lake (Hunan Province, N: 28.87.65° - 29.23°; E: 112.62° - 113.00°), China

16_NCU_XPWU_SU127 (COI, 28S) China: Jiangxi, Gan River

SXNU_22111505 (XJ_05) (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_22111506 (XJ_06) (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

Mp_2657_Ppf (16S) Jiangxi, China

SXNU_22110401 (XJ_01) (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_22111507 (XJ_07) (COI) Jinjiang River, Hunan Province (28.235193°N, 112.931420°E)

SXNU_23111901 (18S)

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