New species of the genus Inversidens Haas, 1911 (Unionoida, Unionidae, Gonideinae) from Jiangxi Province, China

By

Wu, Rui-Wen
Liu, Xiongjun
Kondō, Takaki
Ouyang, Shan
Wu, Xiaoping

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1054

Pages

85--93

Subjects

COI , freshwater mussel , genetic distances , Morphology , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1054.69075

 

Abstract

We diagnose and describe a new freshwater mussel species of the genus Inversidens, I. rentianensissp. nov. from Jiangxi Province, China based on morphological characters and molecular data. This paper includes a morphological description and photograph of the holotype, and partial sequences of mitochondrial COI as DNA barcode data.