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freshwater mussels
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Quadrulini | Quadrulina | Theliderma
species Theliderma stapes (Lea, 1831): synonymy
Synonymy
Unio stapes Lea, 1831
Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 77, pl. 7, fig. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_84218, Alabama R., Ala.
Quadrula (s.s.) stapes — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (s.s.) (Group of Q. metanevra) stapes — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Orthonymus) stapes — Frierson (1927)
Orthonymus stapes — Haas (1969)
Quadrula stapes — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), Jones et al. (2005), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012)
Theliderma stapes — IUCN (1996), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Unio retusus Say, 1834
(misidentified reference to Unio retusa Lamarck, 1819)
Say, 1834. Amer. Conch. 6: ??.
Quadrula (s.s.) stapes — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (s.s.) (Group of Q. metanevra) stapes — Simpson (1914)
Unio stegarius Küster, 1861
(misidentified reference to Obovaria stegaria Rafinesque, 1820)
‘Rafinesque’ Küster, 1861. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 211, pl. 70, fig. 3.
Quadrula (s.s.) stapes — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (s.s.) (Group of Q. metanevra) stapes — Simpson (1914)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Quadrula (s.s.) stapes — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (s.s.) (Group of Q. metanevra) stapes — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Orthonymus) stapes — Frierson (1927)
Orthonymus stapes — Haas (1969)
Quadrula stapes — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), Jones et al. (2005), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012)
Theliderma stapes — IUCN (1996), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
