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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Lampsilis
species Lampsilis bracteata (Gould, 1855): synonymy
1 specimen + 1 GenBank voucher
Synonymy
Unio bracteatus Gould, 1855
Gould, 1855. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 228.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_84966, Llanos R. Texas.
Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) bracteatus — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) bracteata — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) bracteata — Frierson (1927)
Ligumia bracteata — Haas (1969)
Lampsilis bracteata — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), ... Stodola et al. (2021), de Moulpied et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio rowellii Strecker, 1931
(misidentified reference to Unio rowellii Lea, 1859)
‘Singley’ Strecker, 1931. Baylor Univ. Mus. Spec. Bull. 2: ??.
Lampsilis bracteata — Howells et al. (1996)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) bracteatus — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) bracteata — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) bracteata — Frierson (1927)
Ligumia bracteata — Haas (1969)
Lampsilis bracteata — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), ... Stodola et al. (2021), de Moulpied et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
