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<mods:titleid="E60CE508DB62B09D5351BAFA3F3EECD9">A revision of Rhombuniopsis Haas, 1920 (Unionida, Unionidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with descriptions of two new species</mods:title>
<mods:namePartid="35DA65F71981F50C41977F5A352EC106">Xiang, Hong Quan</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="6385C26E3DEA9E1528D0C6D8E9D20079">Yuxi Agriculture Vocation-Technical College Department of Animal Science. Yuxi 653106, China</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="3FC6A36CBA416406D29502EBA867D536">Zhang, Le Jia</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="23D53B6FC444FD865CA51ABF7898B5BC">Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz, Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin 10115, Germany</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="92E79AD22DC8872F2C97ECF2046AB044">Fuzhou University College of Computer and Data Science / College of Software, Fuzhou 350108, China</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="7E7D44B7FAFEA5FB102FB6AB64F3FA0E">Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China</mods:affiliation>
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), collected by
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<figureCitationid="1367D3E4FF99DE79FE024D2B6942F8A1"box="[423,548,1879,1905]"captionStart="FIGURE 4"captionStartId="5.[151,250,1048,1072]"captionTargetBox="[175,1419,254,1012]"captionTargetId="figure-38@5.[162,1425,237,1025]"captionTargetPageId="5"captionText="FIGURE 4. Shells of Rhombuniopsis tauriformis. A. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904101, shell length 37.2 mm. B. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904102, shell length 25.0 mm. C. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904104, shell length 37.0 mm. D. Holotype of R. tauriformis, fu-Yunnan, Yunnan (NHMUK 1906.5.8.72). E. Specimen collected from Lake Lulianghai, KIZ1904111, shell length 46.0 mm. F. Specimen collected from Lake Lulianghai, KIZ1904112, shell length 43.0 mm. Scale bars: 1 cm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12749758"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/12749758/files/figure.png"pageId="4"pageNumber="277">Fig. 4 A–F</figureCitation>
. Shell small, thick, obliquely ovate, symmetrical or slightly asymmetrical, wedge-shaped, anterior margin truncate, posterior margin sharp or round; periostracum shining black, the umbo sculptured with wavy wrinkles, often eroded. Anterior adductor muscle scar oval, very deep; posterior adductor muscle scar round to oval, shallow. Left valve with two pseudocardinal teeth, anterior tooth rather thin, posterior tooth thick; anterior pseudocardinal tooth of the right valve well developed, spherical; lateral teeth long and thick; nacre white.
. A. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904101, shell length 37.2 mm. B. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904102, shell length 25.0 mm. C. Specimen collected from Lake Dianchi, KIZ1904104, shell length 37.0 mm. D. Holotype of
, fu-Yunnan, Yunnan (NHMUK 1906.5.8.72). E. Specimen collected from Lake Lulianghai, KIZ1904111, shell length 46.0 mm. F. Specimen collected from Lake Lulianghai, KIZ1904112, shell length 43.0 mm. Scale bars: 1 cm.
This species can be differentiated from the most similar species
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