Globunionini Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu, 2025

Dai, Yu-Ting, Chen, Zhong-Guang, Ouyang, Shan, Huang, Xiao-Chen & Wu, Xiao-Ping, 2025, A new tribe, genus, and species of freshwater mussel from the Changjiang River Basin in China (Bivalvia, Unionidae, Unioninae), Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (2), pp. 779-790 : 779-790

Tribe Globunionini Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu , tribе nov.

Type genus.

Globunio Dai, Chen, Huang & Wu, 2024 , gen. nov.

Diagnosis.

Shell small-sized, elongated-globular, inflated, thick, solid; very wide, with some individuals even wider than height. Anterior extremely short, inflated, and round; posterior long and flat. Anterior margin rounded, dorsal margin straightened, and slope downward at an obtuse angle, usually covered in fine upward wrinkles; ventral margin weakly curved. Umbo inflated, under dorsal margin, almost at the very front of the shell, often eroded.

Vernacular name.

球蚌族 (qiú bàng zú).

Remarks.

The new tribe has a special small, thick, and elongated-globular shell, which is completely dissimilar to all other tribes of the subfamily. Its independence was also supported by the molecular phylogeny.