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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleuronaia

species Pleuronaia gibber (Lea, 1838): synonymy

1 specimen + 2 Genbank vouchers

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Unio gibber Lea, 1838

Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 20. [nomen nudum]
specimen image from publicationLea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 35, pl. 10, fig. 30.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_84544, Carry [Caney] Fork, Tenn.

Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberSimpson (1900)
Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberumSimpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
Elliptio crassidensOrtmann (1924)
Pleurobema gibberumHaas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberumBogan (2010), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberaCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Perkins et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018)
Pleuronaia gibberWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Unio giber de Gregorio, 1914

‘Lea’ de Gregorio, 1914. Il Nat. Siciliano 2: 57.
(error for Unio gibber Lea, 1838)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberSimpson (1900)
Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberumSimpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
Elliptio crassidensOrtmann (1924)
Pleurobema gibberumHaas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberumBogan (2010), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberaCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Perkins et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018)
Pleuronaia gibberWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

 
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