original description
Konopleva, E. S.; Pfeiffer, J. M.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Kondakov, A. V.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Aksenova, O. V.; Lunn, Z.; Chan, N.; Bolotov, I. N. (2019). A new genus and two new species of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) from western Indochina. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 9(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39365-1
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From editor or global species database
Distribution Western Indochina (Ayeyarwady, Bago, Sittaung and Salween basins in Myanmar and Salween Basin in western Thailand). [details]
Etymology The name of this genus means “freshwater bivalve” (yaukthwa) in Burmese language [details]