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nominal species Unio (Aximedia) elliptica Rafinesque, 1820

Unio (Aximedia) elliptica Rafinesque, 1820 = Pleurobema clava

Rafinesque, 1818. Amer. Mon. Mag. 3: 355 [as ‘Potamilus ellipticus’]. [nomen nudum]
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 296 [also as ‘Elliptio elliptica’].
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 22, 42.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ANSP_20213, [no locality available - North America].

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Watters et al., 2009: 222.

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Williams et al., 2008: 509.

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998: 178.

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Burch, 1975: 163.

+ Obovaria (s.s.) subrotunda (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969: 421.

+ Obovaria (s.s.) subrotunda (Rafinesque, 1820) — Frierson, 1927: 90.

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Ortmann & Walker, 1922: 25.

+ Pleurobema clava Lam. — Vanatta, 1915: 555.

+ — Simpson, 1914: 731.

+ — Simpson, 1900: 744.

= Unio (Limnium sec. Aximedia) ellipticus Rafinesqu — Fischer, 1886: 1000.

+ — Lea, 1870: 91.

+ — Lea, 1852: 57.

+ — Lea, 1836: 58.

= Unio elliptica Raf. — Ferussac, 1835: 28.

= Obliquaria (Aximedia) elliptica (Rafinesque, 1820) — Rafinesque, 1831: 3.

= Unio (Aximedia) elliptica — Rafinesque, 1820: 296, sp. 8.

= Potamilus ellipticus (Rafinesque, 1820) — Rafinesque, 1818: 355, sp. 6.