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nominal species Unio (Leptodea) leptodon Rafinesque, 1820

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Unio (Leptodea) leptodon Rafinesque, 1820 = Potamilus leptodon

Rafinesque, 1818. Amer. Mon. Mag. 3: 355 [as ‘Potamilus leptodon’]. [nomen nudum]
Rafinesque, 1819. Jour. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. 88: 426 [as ‘U. (Plagiola) leptodon’]. [nomen nudum]
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 295, pl. 80, figs. 5-7 [also as ‘Elliptio leptodon’].
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 22, 29, 40.
Type(s): NEOTYPE ANSP_20214, Kentucky River.

Taxonomic Opinions

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 288.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Dai et al., 2025: Table 2.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Chen et al., 2025: Table S3.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — FMCS, 2025: [5].

= Potamilus leptodon — Wu et al., 2024: 7, Table 2.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Dai et al., 2024: Table 1.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Dai et al., 2023: 157, Table 2.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Hopper et al., 2023.

= Potamilus leptodon — Wu et al., 2023: Table 2.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Wu et al., 2022: Table S2.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Pavan-Kumar et al., 2022: Table S1.

= Potamilus leptodon — Mejia-Trujillo & Smith, 2022: 1856.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 18.

= Potamilus leptodon — Zieritz et al., 2021: 1091.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — FMCS, 2021: [6].

= Leptodea leptodon — Wu et al., 2021: attached Table 2.

= Leptodea leptodon — Fukata & Iigo, 2020: 1216.

= Leptodea leptodon — Wu et al., 2020: 196.

= Potamilus leptodon — Smith et al., 2020: 517.

= Leptodea leptodon — Chen et al., 2020: 2800.

= Leptodea leptodon — Teiga-Teixeira et al., 2020: 2978.

= Potamilus leptodon — Smith & Johnson, 2020: 2.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Wu et al., 2019: 29.

= Leptodea leptodon — Lopes-Lima et al., 2019: [6].

= Leptodea leptodon — Froufe et al., 2019: 185.

= Leptodea leptodon — Smith et al., 2019: 337, fig. 2, Table S1.

= Leptodea leptodon — Huang et al., 2018: 304.

= Leptodea leptodon — Wang et al., 2018: 611.

= Leptodea leptodon — Wang et al., 2018: 140.

= Leptodea leptodon — Cha et al., 2018: 946.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Williams et al., 2017: 40.

= Leptodea leptodon — Zhou et al., 2017: 235.

= Leptodea leptodon — Wen et al., 2017: 9.

= Leptodea leptodon — Feng et al., 2016: 443.

= Leptodea leptodon — Jones, 2015: 315.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — ITIS, 2012: [web].

= Leptodea leptodon — Haag, 2012: 69.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — McMurray et al., 2012: 43.

= Leptodea leptodon Rafinesque, 1820 — Bogan, 2010: [19].

= Leptodea leptodon — Cummings & Graf, 2010: 376.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Watters et al., 2009: 179, figs. 116-117.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Williams et al., 2008: 421.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 306.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Zanatta & Murphy, 2006: 197.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Hoke, 2005: 32, Table 2.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Campbell et al., 2005: 154.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cicerello & Schuster, 2003: 31, text fig..

= Leptodea leptodon — Sietman, 2003: 102, text fig..

= Leptodea leptodon (Raf., 1820) — Graf, 2002: 190, Table 3.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) — Lydeard et al., 1999: 128.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998: 149, pl. 62.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Turgeon et al., 1998: 35.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) — Strayer & Jirka, 1997: 96, pl. 9, fig. 5.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cummings & Mayer, 1997: 139.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — IUCN, 1996: [web].

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) — Williams et al., 1993: 13.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cummings & Mayer, 1992: 118, text fig..

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Turgeon et al., 1988: 31.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Oesch, 1984: 170, text figs..

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — R.I. Johnson, 1980: 96, List 1, sp. 57; Tables 2-3, 5.

= Leptodea leptodon — Gordon et al., 1979: 35, Table 3.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Burch, 1975: 20.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Stansbery, 1970: 18.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969: 419.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969: N454, fig. D47:4.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — F.C. Baker, 1928: 239, pl. 85, figs. 5-7.

= Lampsilis (Leptodea) leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Frierson, 1927: 82, sp. 358.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) — Ortmann, 1925: 351.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) — Ortmann, 1924: 28.

= Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Ortmann & Walker, 1922: 52.

= Paraptera leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Ortmann, 1918: 571.

= Lasmonos leptodon (Rafinesque) — Utterback, 1916: 388.

= Lampsilis leptodon Raf. — Vanatta, 1915: 551.

= Lampsilis (Proptera) leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Simpson, 1914: 188.

= Lampsilis (Proptera) leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Simpson, 1900: 575.

+ — Lea, 1870: 92.

= Unio leptodon Rafinesque, 1820 — Sowerby, 1866: pl. 48, sp. 257.

= Unio leptodon Rafinesque — Küster, 1861: 197, pl. 64, figs. 1-2.

= Leptodea leptodon Raf. — Conrad, 1853: 262.

= Metaptera leptodon — Agassiz, 1852: 46.

+ — Lea, 1852: 57.

+ — Lea, 1836: 59.

= Unio leptodon Rafinesque, 1820 — Conrad, 1836: 58, pl. 33.

= Symphynota leptodon Raf. — Ferussac, 1835: 25.

= Unio (Leptodea) leptodon — Rafinesque, 1820: 295, sp. 5, pl. 80, figs. 5-7.

= Unio (Plagiola) leptodon Rafinesque, 1820 — Rafinesque, 1819: 426.

= Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) — Rafinesque, 1818: 355, sp. 13.