Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels:rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta

• Main Authors: Zieritz, Alexandra, Hussein, Taha, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Pfeiffer, John, Kong, Wah Sing, Zohrah, Sulaiman, McGowan, Suzanne, Khairul Adha, Rahim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QL Zoology; SF Animal culture
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31290/1/Towards%20the%20conservation%20of%20Borneo%E2%80%99s%20freshwater%20musselsrediscovery%20of%20the%20endemicCtenodesma%20borneensisand%20firstrecord%20of%20the%20non-nativeSinanodonta%20lauta.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31290/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-020-01971-1

The freshwater mussel fauna of Borneo is highly endemic, with at least 11 species being unique to that island. Most of these species have not been recorded for at least 50 years owing to a lack of sampling effort and large-scale habitat destruction and degradation. Surveys conducted in 2016 across m...