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species Popenaias berezai Inoue, Cummings, Tiemann, Miller, Johnson, Smith & Randklev, 2020: synonymy

116 specimens + 88 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

Unio popeii of Authors

(misidentified reference to Unio popeii Lea, 1857)
of Authors.
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(16): 605 [as ‘Unio (Graphonaias) popei’].
Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 504 [as ‘Unio (Nephronaias) popei’].
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 738 [as ‘Unio (sec. Elliptio)’]. [in part]
Pilsbry, 1910. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 61: 535. [in part]
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 271 [as ‘Elliptio’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 700 [as ‘Unio (sec. Elliptio)’]. [in part]
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 38 [as ‘Elliptio (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Haas, 1929. Senckenbergiana 11: 330 [as ‘Elliptio (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 201 [as ‘Nephronaias (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Graf & Cummings, 2007. J. Moll. Studies 73: 308 [as ‘Popenaias’]. [in part]
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 504 [as ‘Popenaias’]. [in part]

Popenaias berezai — Inoue et al. (2020), Cummings et al. (2025)

Popenaias berezai Inoue et al., 2020

Inoue et al., 2020. Zootaxa 4816(4): 464, figs. 5-7, 8A, 9A.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) CNMO_8037, Rio Valles (= Rio Micos), Estacion Micos, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 22.11417, -99.16166.

Popenaias berezai — Inoue et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Martínez et al. (2026)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

“Unio (sec. Elliptio) popeii” ** — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
“Unio (Nephronaias) popei” ** — Martens (1900)
“Lampsilis popei” ** — Pilsbry (1910)
“Elliptio popeii” ** — Ortmann (1912)
“Elliptio (Popenaias) popei” ** — Frierson (1927), Haas (1929)
“Nephronaias (Popenaias) popeii” ** — Haas (1969)
“Popenaias popeii” ** — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Popenaias berezai — Inoue et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Martínez et al. (2026)