Lamprotula triclava (Heude, 1877)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Unio triclavus Heude, 1877 (basionym)

Conservation Status

Missing (Do, 2011)

Last record: 1999 or before (Do, 2011)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

"it has only been found from one of the seven locations where it was originally recorded. It is believed that the only population may remain on the small part of the Xiangjang... It has only been recorded in the Xiangjang River in the last ten years, but this has only been shells and no live specimens."

(Do, 2011)

Distribution & Habitat

Yangtze River, China

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Heude, P. M. (1875-1885). Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking [et de la Chine centrale]. Paris: F. Savy. 72 + 8 pls, unnumbered pages of text.

Other references:

Do, V. (2011). Lamprotula triclava. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T166305A6197168. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T166305A6197168.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2018.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(4): 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eym029

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2021). A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1): eyaa034 (36 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa034

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 4 July 2025.

Haas, F. (1969). Superfamilia Unionacea. Das Tierreich 88: x, 1-663. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

He, J. and Zhuang, Z. (2013). The Freshwater Bivalves of China. ConchBooks. 198 pp.

Hu, Z-.Q. (2005). Geographical distribution of endemic species of Chinese freshwater bivalves. Chinese Journal of Zoology 40: 80-83.

Liu, X., Yang, X., Zanatta, D. T., Lopes-Lima, M., Bogan, Arthur E. et al. (2020). Conservation status assessment and a new method for establishing conservation priorities for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 30(5): 1000-1011. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3298

Liu, Y.-Y., Wang, Y.-X. and Zhang, W.-Z. (1979). Freshwater Mollusks. Economic Fauna of China. 124 pp.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lamprotula triclava (Heude, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1390108 on 2025-07-05

Prozorova, L. A., Sayenko, E. M., Bogatov, V. V., Wu, M. and Liu, Y.-Y. (2005). [Bivalves of the Yangtze River drainage]. Byulleten' Dal'nevostochnogo Malakologicheskogo Obshchestva 9: 46-58.

Simpson, Charles Torrey. (1900). Synopsis of the naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22(1205): 501-1044, pl. 18.

Simpson, Charles Torrey. (1914). A descriptive catalogue of the naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Parts I-III. Detroit, Michigan: Bryant Walker. 1540 pp.

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. and Zanatta, D. T. (2018). Diversity, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in East and Southeast Asia. Hydrobiologia 810(1): 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3104-8

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