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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Lampsilis

species Lampsilis bracteata (Gould, 1855): synonymy

1 specimen + 1 Genbank voucher

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Unio bracteatus Gould, 1855

Gould, 1855. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 228.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_84966, Llanos R. Texas.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) bracteatusSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) bracteataSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) bracteataFrierson (1927)
Ligumia bracteataHaas (1969)
Lampsilis bracteataBurch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Stodola et al. (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Unio rowellii Strecker, 1931

‘Singley’ Strecker, 1931. Baylor Univ. Mus. Spec. Bull. 2: ??.
(misidentified reference to Unio rowellii Lea, 1859)

Lampsilis bracteataHowells et al. (1996)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) bracteatusSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) bracteataSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) bracteataFrierson (1927)
Ligumia bracteataHaas (1969)
Lampsilis bracteataBurch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Stodola et al. (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

 
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