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nominal species Unio (Aximedia) elliptica Rafinesque, 1820

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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].

= Pleurobema clava

Taxonomic Opinions

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

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

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

+ Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) — Burch, 1975

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

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

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

+ Pleurobema clava Lam. — Vanatta, 1915

+ — Simpson, 1914

+ — Simpson, 1900

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

+ — Lea, 1870

+ — Lea, 1852

+ — Lea, 1836

= Unio elliptica Raf. — Ferussac, 1835

= Obliquaria (Aximedia) elliptica (Rafinesque, 1820) — Rafinesque, 1831

= Unio (Aximedia) elliptica — Rafinesque, 1820

= Potamilus ellipticus (Rafinesque, 1820) — Rafinesque, 1818