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  4. ›Autobranchia
  5. ›Heteroconchia
  6. ›Freshwater Mussels and Brooch Clams
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  8. ›Unionoidea
  9. ›River Mussels
  10. ›Rectidentinae
  11. ›Contradentini
Yaukthwa
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Yaukthwa

Yaukthwa is a genus of freshwater mussels in the family Unionidae, subfamily Rectidentinae, tribe Contradentini. The genus is endemic to the Western Indochina Subregion, with species distributed across the Ayeyarwady, Sittaung, Bago, and Salween river drainages in Myanmar and northwestern Thailand.

The genus name derives from the Burmese word yaukthwa, meaning "freshwater bivalve".

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Yaukthwa inlenesis

speciesYaukthwa inlenesis

Yaukthwa paiensis

speciesYaukthwa paiensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 995681.