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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio pictorum

nominal species Unio arca Küster, 1853

Unio arca Küster, 1853 = Unio pictorum

specimen image from publication‘Held in sched.’ Küster, 1853. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 79, pl. 20, figs. 1-2.
(homonym of Unio arcus Conrad, 1834)

= Unio pictorum

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) — He & Zhuang, 2013

+ Unio pictorum latirostris Küster, 1854 — Haas, 1969

+ Unio pictorum latirostris Küster, 1854 — Haas, 1940

= Unio (Groupe de l’U. platyrhynchoideus) arca Held — Locard, 1893

= Unio arca Held in Küster, 1854 — Paetel, 1890

= Unio arca Held Kstr., 1848 — Westerlund, 1890

= Unio (Platyrhynchoidiana) arca Held — Locard, 1889

= Unio arca Held, mss. — Bourguignat, 1883

= Unio (Groupe de l’U. platyrhynchoideus) arca Held — Locard, 1882

= Unio pictorum var. arca Held — Clessin, 1877

= Unio pictorum var. arca Held — Kobelt, 1876

+ Unio platyrhynchus Rossmässler — Küster, 1853

 
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