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Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)
1026038 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1026038)
accepted
Species
Anodon herculeus G. B. Sowerby II, 1867 · unaccepted
Anodonta (Dipsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Anodonta cristata Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Anodonta dipsas Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Anodonta spatiosa Clessin, 1876 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Craspedodonta smaragdina (Anton, 1838) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Cristaria (Cristaria) plicata (Leach, 1814) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Cristaria herculea (Middendorff, 1847) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Dianisotis chinensis Rafinesque, 1831 · unaccepted (substitute name for Symphynota...)
substitute name for Symphynota bialata Lea, 1829
Dipsas bialatus (I. Lea, 1829) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Dipsas occidentalis Heude, 1885 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 · unaccepted (original combination)
Symphynota bialata I. Lea, 1829 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Symphynota magnifica I. Lea, 1834 sensu Mabille & le Mesle, 1866 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Unio (Anodonta) smaragdinus Anton, 1838 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Unio smaragdina Anton, 1838 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Subspecies Cristaria plicata plicata (Leach, 1814)
(of Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814) Leach, W. E. (1814-1817). Zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals. <em>London.</em> Vol. 1</i> [1814]. Vol. 2 [1815], Vol. 3 [1817]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91180
page(s): 1: 120, pl. 53 [details]
page(s): 1: 120, pl. 53 [details]
Note Not stated in the original description
From editor or global species database
Type locality Not stated in the original description [details]
Distribution East Asia: Indochina and China north to the Amur Basin, eastern Russia and Mongolia, also Japan and the Kurile islands
Distribution East Asia: Indochina and China north to the Amur Basin, eastern Russia and Mongolia, also Japan and the Kurile islands [details]
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original description
(of Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814) Leach, W. E. (1814-1817). Zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals. <em>London.</em> Vol. 1</i> [1814]. Vol. 2 [1815], Vol. 3 [1817]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91180
page(s): 1: 120, pl. 53 [details]
original description (of Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
original description (of Anodonta cristata Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825-1827). <i>Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie</i>. Paris, Levrault 1-647 [1825], 649-664 + 109 pl. [1827]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43891 [details]
original description (of Anodonta dipsas Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825-1827). <i>Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie</i>. Paris, Levrault 1-647 [1825], 649-664 + 109 pl. [1827]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43891 [details]
original description (of Symphynota bialata I. Lea, 1829) Lea I. (1829). Description of a new genus of the family of naïades, including eight species, four of which are new; also the description of eleven new species of the genus <i>Unio</i> from the rivers of the United States: with observation on some of the characters of the naïades. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> new ser., 3: 403-457, pls 7-14., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4487916
page(s): 445, pl. 14, fig. 24 [details]
original description (of Unio (Anodonta) smaragdinus Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). <i>Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer</i>. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, <i>The Veliger</i> 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Anodonta (Dipsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848) Middendorff A.Th. von. (1848). Sur un envoi adressé à l'Academie par M. Sensinov de Nertchinsk et sur une novelle espece d'Anodonta. <em>Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 6(19): 302-304., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977161
page(s): 303 [details]
original description (of Anodon herculeus G. B. Sowerby II, 1867) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1867-1870). Monograph of the genus <i>Anodon</i>. In: <i>Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 17, p. 1-37 [pls 2-9, Apr 1867; pls 10-15, Jun 1867; 16-19, Sep 1867; 20, Jan 1868; 21-24, Aug 1869; 1, 25-37, Jun 1870]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10974774
page(s): pl. 3, fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Anodonta spatiosa Clessin, 1876) Clessin, S. (1873-1876). Die Gattung Anodonta nebst den übrigen Najaden mit unvolkommenem Schloss. <em>Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.</em> 9(1): 65-288., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11914469
page(s): 173, pl. 57, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Unio smaragdina Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). <i>Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer</i>. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, <i>The Veliger</i> 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Dipsas occidentalis Heude, 1885) Heude, P. M. (1875-1885). <i>Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking [et de la Chine centrale]</i>. Paris: F. Savy. 72 + 8 pls, unnumbered pages of text. [(1): pls 1-8 (1875); (2): pls 9-16, (3): pls 17-24 (1877); (4): pls 25-32 (1878); (5): pls 33-40 (1879); (6): pls 41-48 (1880); (7): pls 49-56 (1881); (8): pls 57-64 (1883); (9): pls 65-72 (1885); (10): pls 1-8 (1880)] [dates according to Johnson, R. I. 1973. Heude's molluscan types or Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mainly from the People's Republic of China, described by P. M. Heude. Special occasional publications, Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1, 1-111]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16005996
page(s): (9): pl. 66, fig. 129 [details]
taxonomy source Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Aksenova, O. V.; Aksenov, A. S.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Borovskoy, A. V.; Danilov, P. P.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kabakov, M. B.; Klishko, O. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Lyubas, A. A.; Novoselov, A. P.; Palatov, D. M.; Savvinov, G. N.; Solomonov, N. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Makhrov, A. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2020). Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59867-7
page(s): Supplementary material, p. 29 [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record He J. & Zhuang Z. [He Jiang & Zhuang Zimin] (2013) <i>The freshwater bivalves of China</i>. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 197 pp. [details]
additional source Do, T.V.; Tuan, L.Q.; Bogan, A.E. (2018). Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) of Vietnam: Diversity, distribution, and conservation status. <em>Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation.</em> 21:1–18. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Zieritz, A.; Bogan, A. E.; Froufe, E.; Klishko, O.; Kondo, T.; Kovitvadhi, U.; Kovitvadhi, S.; Lee, J. H.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Pfeiffer, J. M.; Sousa, R.; Van Do, T.; Vikhrev, I.; Zanatta, D. T. (2018). Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 810(1): 29-44., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3104-8
page(s): Online Resource 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Itoh, T.; Uesugi, S.; Kakino, W. (2016). Host Fish Species for Glochidia of the Freshwater Unionid Mussel Cristaria plicata in Tanks. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 74 (3-4): 79-88. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Wada, K. (1989). Allograft and Xenograft Mantle Transplantation in Freshwater Mussels. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 48(3):174-190. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 1: 120, pl. 53 [details]
original description (of Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
original description (of Anodonta cristata Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825-1827). <i>Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie</i>. Paris, Levrault 1-647 [1825], 649-664 + 109 pl. [1827]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43891 [details]
original description (of Anodonta dipsas Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825-1827). <i>Manuel de malacologie et de conchyliologie</i>. Paris, Levrault 1-647 [1825], 649-664 + 109 pl. [1827]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43891 [details]
original description (of Symphynota bialata I. Lea, 1829) Lea I. (1829). Description of a new genus of the family of naïades, including eight species, four of which are new; also the description of eleven new species of the genus <i>Unio</i> from the rivers of the United States: with observation on some of the characters of the naïades. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> new ser., 3: 403-457, pls 7-14., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4487916
page(s): 445, pl. 14, fig. 24 [details]
original description (of Unio (Anodonta) smaragdinus Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). <i>Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer</i>. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, <i>The Veliger</i> 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Anodonta (Dipsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848) Middendorff A.Th. von. (1848). Sur un envoi adressé à l'Academie par M. Sensinov de Nertchinsk et sur une novelle espece d'Anodonta. <em>Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 6(19): 302-304., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977161
page(s): 303 [details]
original description (of Anodon herculeus G. B. Sowerby II, 1867) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1867-1870). Monograph of the genus <i>Anodon</i>. In: <i>Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 17, p. 1-37 [pls 2-9, Apr 1867; pls 10-15, Jun 1867; 16-19, Sep 1867; 20, Jan 1868; 21-24, Aug 1869; 1, 25-37, Jun 1870]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10974774
page(s): pl. 3, fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Anodonta spatiosa Clessin, 1876) Clessin, S. (1873-1876). Die Gattung Anodonta nebst den übrigen Najaden mit unvolkommenem Schloss. <em>Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.</em> 9(1): 65-288., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11914469
page(s): 173, pl. 57, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Unio smaragdina Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). <i>Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer</i>. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, <i>The Veliger</i> 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Dipsas occidentalis Heude, 1885) Heude, P. M. (1875-1885). <i>Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking [et de la Chine centrale]</i>. Paris: F. Savy. 72 + 8 pls, unnumbered pages of text. [(1): pls 1-8 (1875); (2): pls 9-16, (3): pls 17-24 (1877); (4): pls 25-32 (1878); (5): pls 33-40 (1879); (6): pls 41-48 (1880); (7): pls 49-56 (1881); (8): pls 57-64 (1883); (9): pls 65-72 (1885); (10): pls 1-8 (1880)] [dates according to Johnson, R. I. 1973. Heude's molluscan types or Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mainly from the People's Republic of China, described by P. M. Heude. Special occasional publications, Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1, 1-111]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16005996
page(s): (9): pl. 66, fig. 129 [details]
taxonomy source Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Aksenova, O. V.; Aksenov, A. S.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Borovskoy, A. V.; Danilov, P. P.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kabakov, M. B.; Klishko, O. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Lyubas, A. A.; Novoselov, A. P.; Palatov, D. M.; Savvinov, G. N.; Solomonov, N. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Makhrov, A. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2020). Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 10(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59867-7
page(s): Supplementary material, p. 29 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record He J. & Zhuang Z. [He Jiang & Zhuang Zimin] (2013) <i>The freshwater bivalves of China</i>. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 197 pp. [details]
additional source Do, T.V.; Tuan, L.Q.; Bogan, A.E. (2018). Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) of Vietnam: Diversity, distribution, and conservation status. <em>Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation.</em> 21:1–18. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Zieritz, A.; Bogan, A. E.; Froufe, E.; Klishko, O.; Kondo, T.; Kovitvadhi, U.; Kovitvadhi, S.; Lee, J. H.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Pfeiffer, J. M.; Sousa, R.; Van Do, T.; Vikhrev, I.; Zanatta, D. T. (2018). Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 810(1): 29-44., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3104-8
page(s): Online Resource 1 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Itoh, T.; Uesugi, S.; Kakino, W. (2016). Host Fish Species for Glochidia of the Freshwater Unionid Mussel Cristaria plicata in Tanks. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 74 (3-4): 79-88. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Wada, K. (1989). Allograft and Xenograft Mantle Transplantation in Freshwater Mussels. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 48(3):174-190. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution East Asia: Indochina and China north to the Amur Basin, eastern Russia and Mongolia, also Japan and the Kurile islands [details]Type locality Not stated in the original description [details]
To Barcode of Life (94 barcodes)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata GIANT)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata LARGE)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cristaria plicata)
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins)
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins) (from synonym Cristaria herculea (Middendorff, 1847))
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins) (from synonym Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 472442 Dipsas plicatus Holotype) (from synonym Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 854145 Exterior)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 854145 Jewelry)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 86356 Symphynota bialata Type) (from synonym Symphynota bialata I. Lea, 1829)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 067520)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata GIANT)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata LARGE)
To Conchology (Cristaria plicata)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cristaria plicata)
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins)
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins) (from synonym Cristaria herculea (Middendorff, 1847))
To GenBank (259 nucleotides; 190 proteins) (from synonym Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 472442 Dipsas plicatus Holotype) (from synonym Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 854145 Exterior)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 854145 Jewelry)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 86356 Symphynota bialata Type) (from synonym Symphynota bialata I. Lea, 1829)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 067520)
