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6 November 2019 |
Mussel of the Month
The November 2019 Mussel of the Month is Yaukthwa peguensis. Yaukthwa is a genus of eight species found in Myanmar and Thailand.
The former genus Trapezoideus sensu lato (Graf & Cummings, 2007) has been recently split among several genera: Trapezoideus sensu stricto, Contradens, Indonaia, Trapezidens, Lamellidens, Arcidopsis, and Yaukthwa (Konopleva et al., 2019).
Yaukthwa is a newly recognized genus, described earlier this year (Konopleva et al., 2019). The eight currently known species are disrtributed from the Irrawaddy River east to the Salween of Myanmar and Thailand. |
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Classification:
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Order Unionoida
Superfamily UNIONOIDEA Rafinesque, 1820
Family UNIONIDAE s.s
Subfamily RECTIDENTINAE Modell, 1942
Tribe CONTRADENTINI Modell, 1942
Genus Yaukthwa Konopleva, Pfeiffer, Vikhrev, Kondakov,
Gofarov, Aksenova, Lunn, Chan & Bolotov, 2019
Species Yaukthwa peguensis (Anthony, 1865) |
To find out more about Yaukthwa and the other genera split from the Old Trapezoideus, check out:
- Bolotov, I.N., I.V. Vikhrev, A.V. Kondakov, E.S. Konopleva, M.Y. Gofarov et al. 2017. New taxa of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) from a species-rich but overlooked evolutionary hotspot in Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports 7: 11573 (18 pp.).
- Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2007. Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 291-314.
- Konopleva, E.S., J.M. Pfeiffer, I.V. Vikhrev, A.V. Kondakov, M.Yu. Gofarov et al. 2019. A new genus and two new species of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) from western Indochina. Scientific Reports 9 (4106): 1-14.
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