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species Elliptio spinosa (Lea, 1836): synonymy

3 specimens

Synonymy

image of type lot

Unio spinosus Lea, 1836

Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 17, fronticepiece.
specimen image from publicationLea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 57, pl. 16, fig. 50.
SYNTYPE ANSP_128763, Darien, Ga.

Unio (sec. Canthyria) spinosus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio spinosus — Ortmann (1912)
Canthyria spinosa — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (sec. Canthyria) spinosus — Thiele (1934)
Canthyria spinosus — Morrison (1966)
Elliptio (Canthyria) spinosa — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio (Canthyria) spinosus — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Elliptio spinosa — Kat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Canthyria) spinosus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio spinosus — Ortmann (1912)
Canthyria spinosa — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (sec. Canthyria) spinosus — Thiele (1934)
Canthyria spinosus — Morrison (1966)
Elliptio (Canthyria) spinosa — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio (Canthyria) spinosus — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Elliptio spinosa — Kat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)