A new tribe, genus, and species of freshwater mussel from the Changjiang River Basin in China (Bivalvia, Unionidae, Unioninae)

By

Dai, Yu-Ting
Chen, Zhongguang
Ouyang, Shan
Huang, Xiao-Chen
Wu, Xiaoping

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-4-10

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

101

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

779--790

Subjects

Biodiversity , molluscs , Phylogeny , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.151083

 

Abstract

A new tribe, genus, and species of freshwater mussels, Globunionini Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu, tribe nov. and Globunio mirificus Chen, Dai, Huang & Wu, gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Changjiang River Basin in China based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny. The species presence of a special small-sized and elongated globular, which distinguishes it from all other tribes. The discovery increases the diversity of freshwater mussels in the Changjiang River Basin.