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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) delicatus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio terminalis — IUCN (2014) Unio terminalis delicates [sic] — Soliman et al. (2016) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) pietri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) zabulonicus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) pietri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) pietri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) ellipsoideus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) pietri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) turtoni — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio elongatulus eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) ellipsoideus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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) ellipsoideus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio delicatus — Lopes-Lima et al. (2021) | |
Unio schwarzii Kobelt, 1915 Kobelt, 1915. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 20: 27, pl. 551, fig. 2802.
Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio delicatus — Lopes-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 delicatus — Lopes-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) delicatus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (sec. Lymnium) pietri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (sec. Lymnium) zabulonicus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (sec. Lymnium) ellipsoideus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (sec. Lymnium) turtoni — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) — Simpson (1914) Unio tigridis tigridis — Haas (1940), Haas (1969) Unio elongatulus eucirrus — Haas (1940), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1992) Unio terminalis delicatus — Schütt (1983) Unio terminalis — IUCN (2014) Unio terminalis delicates [sic] — Soliman et al. (2016) Unio delicatus — Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Lyubas et al. (2022)
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