{{Short description|Species of bivalve}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_alt = | image_caption = | status = | status_system = | status_ref = {{citation needed|date=February 2025}} | genus = Middendorffinaia | species = mongolica | display_parents = 3 | grandparent_authority = [[Lopes-Lima]], Bolotov, & Bogan, 2020<ref>Lopes-Lima, M.; Hattori, A.; Kondo, T.; Hee Lee, J.; Ki Kim, S.; Shirai, A.; Hayashi, H.; Usui, T.; Sakuma, K.; Toriya, T.; Sunamura, Y.; Ishikawa, H.; Hoshino, N.; Kusano, Y.; Kumaki, H.; Utsugi, Y.; Yabe, S.; Yoshinari, Y.; Hiruma, H.; Tanaka, A.; Sao, K.; Ueda, T.; Sano, I.; Miyazaki, J.-I.; Gonçalves, D. V.; Klishko, O. K.; Konopleva, E. S.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Kondakov, A. V.; Yu. Gofarov, M.; Bolotov, I. N.; Sayenko, E. M.; Soroka, M.; Zieritz, A.; Bogan, A. E.; Froufe, E. (2020). Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the rising sun (Far East Asia): phylogeny, systematics, and distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 146: 106755., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106755 page(s): 23</ref> | parent_authority = [[Moskvicheva]] & [[Yaroslav Starobogatov|Starobogatov]], 1973<ref>Moskvicheva I.M., Starobogatov Ya.I. (1973). On the East Asian Potomida-like Unionidae (Bivalvia). Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Pripody, otdel biologicheskij. 78(2): 21-37. (In Russian). page(s): 26</ref> | authority = ([[Alexander von Middendorff|Middendorff]], 1850) | synonyms = *''[[Margaritana]] mongolica'' <small>(Middendorff, 1850)</small> [[superseded combination]] *''Middendorffinaia ([[Middendorffinaia (subgenus)|Middendorffinaia]]) alimovi'' <small>Bogatov, 2012</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Middendorffinaia) mongolica'' <small>(Middendorff, 1850) </small> *''Middendorffinaia ([[Pseudopotomida]]) dulkeitiana'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) hassanica'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) martensi'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) shadini'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) sujfunensis'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) weliczkowskii'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia ([[Suifunio]]) sujfunensis'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia alimovi'' <small>Bogatov, 2012</small> *''Middendorffinaia arsenievi'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 </small> *''Middendorffinaia dulkeitiana'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia maihensis'' <small>Moskvicheva, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia shadini'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''Middendorffinaia ussuriensis'' <small>Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973</small> *''[[Unio (bivalve)|Unio]] crassus mongolicus'' <small>Middendorff, 1850</small> superseded rank and combination *''Unio douglasiae'' [[var.]] ''mongolicus'' <small>Middendorff, 1850</small> superseded rank and combination *''Unio mongolicus'' <small>Middendorff, 1850</small><ref>Middendorff A.Th. von. (1850). Beschreibung einiger Mollusken-Arten, nebsteinem Blicke auf der geographischen Character der Land- und Susswasser-Mollusken Nord-Asiens. Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. 9(3): 108–112. [issued 16 December 1850]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45980324 page(s): 109</ref> [[original combination]] | synonyms_ref =<ref>MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. ''Middendorffinaia mongolica'' (Middendorff, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1291168 on 18 July 2024</ref> }}
'''''Middendorffinaia mongolica''''', formerly ''Middendorffinaia shadini'', is a [[species]] of [[Unionidae|unionid]] mussel [[endemic]] to South [[Primorye]], Russia. Its [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] honours Russian zoologist [[Vladimir Zhadin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/db/db.php?p=publ&n=24|title=The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)|publisher=The MUSSEL Project | accessdate = 30 November 2014 }}</ref> ''Middendorffinaia shadini'' inhabits the river [[Razdolnaya River|Razdolnaya]], its tributaries [[Rakovka River|Rakovka]], [[Olenevka River|Olenevka]], [[Komarovka River|Komarovka]] and [[Kiparisovka River|Kiparisovka]], as well as rivers [[Artemovka River|Artemovka]], [[Barabashevka River|Barabashevka]] and some parts of the rivers [[Tesnaya River|Tesnaya]] and [[Gladkaya River|Gladkaya]].<ref name="redbook">{{cite web |url=http://redbookpk.ru/2.animals/2.invertebrata/4.mollusca/3.bivalvia/7.middendorffinaia%20shadini/middendorffinaia%20shadini.html|title=Миддендорффиная Жадина – Middendorffinaia shadini Moskvicheva et Starobogatov, 1970|publisher=Красная Книга Приморского края|language=Russian| accessdate = 30 November 2014 }}</ref>
==Conservation status== ''Middendorffinaia shadini'' is listed in the [[Red Book of Russia]] and, particularly, in the Red Book of [[Primorsky Krai]].<ref name="redbook"/> ''Middendorffinaia shadini'' is sensitive to [[water pollution]] and [[soil contamination]].<ref name="redbook"/>
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