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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio

species Unio delicatus Lea, 1863: synonymy
     33 specimens + 55 Genbank vouchers

Unio delicatus Lea, 1863
Lea, 1863. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 15: 189.
Lea, 1866. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 58 [62], pl. 19, fig. 56.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84906, R. Orontes, Syria.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) delicatusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio terminalisIUCN (2014)
Unio terminalis delicates [sic]Soliman et al. (2016)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021), Lyubas et al. (2022)

Unio anemprosthus Locard, 1883
‘Bourguignat’ Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 246, pl. 21, figs. 21-23.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietriSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio antiochianus Locard, 1883
Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 249, pl. 22, figs. 14-16.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) zabulonicusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio axiacus Locard, 1883
‘Letourneux’ Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 242, pl. 20, figs. 20-23.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietriSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio chantrei Locard, 1883
Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 247, pl. 22, figs. 1-7.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietriSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio jauberti Locard, 1883
‘Bourguignat’ Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 248, pl. 22, figs. 8-10.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) ellipsoideusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio subtigridis Locard, 1883
‘Letourneux’ Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 245, pl. 21, figs. 18-20.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietriSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio alexandri Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 14, pl. 2, fig. 2.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) turtoniSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 11, pl. 1, fig. 1.

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio kobelti Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 15, pl. 6, fig. 3.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) ellipsoideusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio pietri Kobelt, 1895
Kobelt, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1: 16, pl. 6, figs. 1-2.
(misidentified reference to Unio pietri Locard, 1883)

Unio (sec. Lymnium) ellipsoideusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)

Unio cilicicus var. adanensis Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 12, pl. 1, fig. 2.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio cilicicus var. jenemterensis Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 12, pl. 1a, fig. 1.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio cilicicus var. subsaccatus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 13, pl. 7a, fig. 3.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio (cilicicus var. ?) berytensis Kobelt & Rolle, 1895
Kobelt & Rolle, 1895. Iconogr. Land-Süßw.-Moll., Supplement 1 (1-4): 13, pl. 5, figs. 1-2.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio kuweikensis Kobelt, 1913
Kobelt, 1913. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 19: 31, pl. 525, fig. 2725.

Simpson (1914)
Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio (cilicicus var.) anceyi Kobelt, 1913
‘Bourguignat’ Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 146 [40] [as ‘Unio anceyi’]. [nomen nudum]
‘Bourguignat MS’ Kobelt, 1913. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 19: 47, pl. 534, fig. 2748.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cilicicus Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio schwarzii Kobelt, 1915
Kobelt, 1915. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 20: 27, pl. 551, fig. 2802.

Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio tigridis Araujo et al., 2018
‘Bourguignat’ of Authors.
Araujo et al., 2018. J. Linn. Soc., Zool. 182(2): supplementary table. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio tigridis Bourguignat, 1852)

Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Unio anemprostus Westerlund, 1890
‘(Bgt.) Loc.’ Westerlund, 1890. Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 175.
(error for Unio anemprosthus Locard, 1883)

Unio (cilicicus var.) berythensis Haas, 1940
‘Kobelt & Rolle’ Haas, 1940. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 128.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 42.
(error for Unio (cilicicus var. ?) berytensis Kobelt & Rolle, 1895)

Unio terminalis delicates Soliman et al., 2016
Soliman et al., 2016. Egypt. J. Zool. 66: 120.
(error for Unio delicatus Lea, 1863)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Lymnium) delicatusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietriSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) zabulonicusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) ellipsoideusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) turtoniSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Simpson (1914)
Unio tigridis tigridisHaas (1940), Haas (1969)
Unio elongatulus eucirrusHaas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992)
Unio terminalis delicatusSchütt (1983)
Unio terminalisIUCN (2014)
Unio terminalis delicates [sic]Soliman et al. (2016)
Unio delicatusLopes-Lima et al. (2021), Lyubas et al. (2022)

 
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