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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Lampsilis
species Lampsilis satura (Lea, 1852): synonymy
2 specimens + 3 Genbank vouchers
Synonymy
Unio satur Lea, 1852
Lea, 1852. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5: 252. [nomen nudum]
Lea, 1852. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 10 [O. 5]: 265 [21], pl. 17, fig. 19.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84505, L. Calcasieu, La.
Lampsilis (s.s.) ventricosus var. satur — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (s.s.) ventricosa var. satura — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis ventricosa satur — Ortmann (1916)
Lampsilis ventricosa satura — Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (s.s.) cardium-satura — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (s.s.) cardium satur — Haas (1969)
Lampsilis satur — R.I. Johnson (1980), Williams et al. (1993)
Lampsilis satura — Turgeon et al. (1988), Vidrine (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Lampsilis cardium — Haag (2012)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Lampsilis (s.s.) ventricosus var. satur — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (s.s.) ventricosa var. satura — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis ventricosa satur — Ortmann (1916)
Lampsilis ventricosa satura — Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (s.s.) cardium-satura — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (s.s.) cardium satur — Haas (1969)
Lampsilis satur — R.I. Johnson (1980), Williams et al. (1993)
Lampsilis satura — Turgeon et al. (1988), Vidrine (1993), Howells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Lampsilis cardium — Haag (2012)
