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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Plesielliptio postbiplicatus

nominal species Unio postbiplicata Whitfield, 1903

Unio postbiplicata Whitfield, 1903 = Plesielliptio postbiplicatus

Whitfield, 1903. Bull. AMNH 19: 487, pl. 39, figs. 1-11.

= Plesielliptio postbiplicatus

Taxonomic Opinions

= Plesielliptio postbiplicatus (Whitfield, 1903) — Hartmann, 1998

= Plesielliptio postbiplicatus (Whitfield) — Russell, 1976

= Lexingtonia postbiplicata (Whitfield, 1903) — Modell, 1957

= Unio postbiplicatus Whitfield — Henderson, 1935

 
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