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species Epioblasma lenior (Lea, 1842): synonymy

1 specimen

Synonymy

Unio lenis Lea, 1840

Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 286.
(renamed Unio lenior Lea, 1842; homonym of Unio lenis Conrad, 1838)

Truncilla (s.s.) lenior — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Dysnomia (Penita) lenior — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Plagiola (s.s.) lenior — R.I. Johnson (1978)
Epioblasma lenior — Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008), Bieler (2021)

image of type lot

Unio lenior Lea, 1842

Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 286 [as ‘lenis’].
specimen image from publicationLea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 204, pl. 12, fig. 18.
(new name for Unio lenis Lea, 1840)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86130, Stones R., Tenn.

Truncilla (s.s.) lenior — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla lenior — Ortmann (1918)
Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) lenior — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Dysnomia (Penita) lenior — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Dysnomia lenior — Stansbery (1970), Burch (1975)
Plagiola (s.s.) lenior — R.I. Johnson (1978)
Plagiola lenior — R.I. Johnson (1980)
Epioblasma lenior — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Truncilla (s.s.) lenior — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla lenior — Ortmann (1918)
Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) lenior — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Dysnomia (Penita) lenior — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Dysnomia lenior — Stansbery (1970), Burch (1975)
Plagiola (s.s.) lenior — R.I. Johnson (1978)
Plagiola lenior — R.I. Johnson (1980)
Epioblasma lenior — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Bieler (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)