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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Potamilus

species Potamilus capax (Green, 1832): synonymy

2 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

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Symphynota globosa Lea, 1834

specimen image from publicationLea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 41, pl. 4, fig. 12.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_56609, Ohio.

Lampsilis (s.s.) capaxSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Proptera capaxFrierson (1927), F.C. Baker (1928), R.I. Johnson (1980)
Potamilus capaxWatters et al. (2009)

Unio globulus Featherman, 1872

‘Lea’ Featherman, 1872. unknown publication: ??.
(error for Symphynota globosa Lea, 1834)

Potamilus capaxVidrine (1993)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (s.s.) capaxSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) capaxCall (1900)
Proptera capaxOrtmann (1914), Utterback (1916), Frierson (1927), F.C. Baker (1928), Murray & Leonard (1962), Stansbery (1970), Burch (1975), Gordon et al. (1979), R.I. Johnson (1980)
Lampsilis (s.s.) cardium-saturaFrierson (1927)
Potamilus capaxOesch (1984), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), Vidrine (1993), ... Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

 
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