Sinanodonta luata from South Korea has so many different shapes.
Sinanodonta luata from South Korea has so many different shapes.
Sinanodonta lauta has so many different lateral shapes and thicknesses that it is difficult to see it as a single species.
As other freshwater clams in South Korea show various shapes, it is very difficult to distinguish the species.
For this reason, it seems that many scholars in the past have recorded various species of freshwater clams of the genus Sinanodonta, including Sinanodonta lauta.
From December 2019 until now, with the help of Jae-Hoon Kim and Su-Min Seong, freshwater clams from all over South Korea were collected and the COI gene of mtDNA was analyzed. As a result, we collected photos of individuals identified as Sinanodonta lauta.
It's amazing to see so many different shapes.
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Sinanodonta lautaObserver
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It is a single species and has many different forms. So, it seems that scholars of the past recorded one species as dozens.
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