ScienceAsia 2 (1976): 081-083 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1976.02.081

REDISCOVERY OF SOLENAIA EMARGINATA (LEA) IN THAILAND

WILLIAM H. HEARD

Summary: The freshwater mussel Solenaia emarginata was originally described from Thailand in 1860. Shells of this very rare mollusc were recently found again, for the first time since that date, near the Khwae Yai River in Kanchanaburi Province.

          The shell form of Anodon soleniformis from India and Mycetopus iridineus from China is similar to that of S. emarginata, and those two species are included in the genus Solellllia. The anatomy and larval form of only S. soleniformis are known, but, because of shell similarities, all three species are provisionally placed in the family Amblemidae. Other mussels with similar shell form, from Australia and South America, probably belong to different families.

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Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, U.S.A.

Received 27 April 1976