original description
Dai Y.-T., Huang X.-C., Wu C.-H.-Z., Chen Zh.-G., Guo L., Shu F.-Y., Ouyang Sh., Wu X.-P. (2023). Multilocus and mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses reveal a new genus and species of freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Guangxi, China. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 37(2), 152–166.
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Etymology The genus name is made of the two Latin words ‘Postʼ and ‘Lataʼ that mean ‘rear’ and ‘wide’ respectively, attributed to the shell morphological characters. The letter ‘o’ is a connecting vowel. [details]