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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio auricularius
nominal species Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819
Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 = Pseudunio auricularius
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 149, fig. 3 [sic]. [pre-linnaean]
Knorr, 1757. Vergnügen 2(4): pl. 25, fig. 2. [pre-linnaean]
Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 4, fig. 1.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, figs. 1a-b [as Unio sp.].
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 70, sp. 1.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_XXX, the Rhine, the Loire and other rivers of continental Europe.
Taxonomic Opinions
+ Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 25.
+ Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793) — Lyubas et al., 2019: 11.
+ Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2018: 113.
+ Margaritifera auricularia Spengler, 1793 — Fauna Europaea, 2012: [web].
+ Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — IUCN, 2010: [web].
+ Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Graf & Cummings, 2009: 228.
+ Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Araujo et al., 2009: 13.
+ Pseudunio auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — D.G. Smith, 2001: 42.
+ Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Nagel et al., 1998: 100.
+ Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Ziuganov et al., 1994: 59.
+ Margaritifera (Pseudunio) auricularia auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Haas, 1969: 13.
+ Margaritifera (Pseudunio) auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Haas, 1969: N415.
+ Margaritifera auricularia auricularia (Spengler, 1793) — Haas, 1940: 119.
+ Margaritana (Potomida) auricularius (Spengler) — Thiele, 1934: 816, [1245].
+ Margaritana auricularia (Spengler) — Germain, 1931: 718.
+ Margaritana auricularia Spengler — Haas, 1924: 78.
+ Margaritana crassa (Retzius, 1788) — Simpson, 1914: 518.
= Margaritana sinuata (Lamarck) — Ortmann, 1913: 88.
= Margaritana sinuata (Lamarck, 1819) — Ortmann, 1912: 232.
= Pseudunio sinuatus (Lamarck, 1819) — Haas, 1910: 183.
= Unio (Groupe Baryana) sinuatus Lk. — Caziot, 1907: 276.
= Unio (Baryana) sinuatus de Lamarck, 1819 — Germain, 1904: 249.
= Unio sinuatus Lamck. — Rochebrune, 1903: 388.
= Unio sinuatus — Kobelt, 1903: 26, pl. 279, fig. 1794.
+ Margaritana crassa (Retzius, 1788) — Simpson, 1900: 678.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck, 1819 — Drouët, 1898: 84.
= Unio (Groupe de l’U. sinuatus) sinuatus de Lamarck — Locard, 1893: 151, fig. 164.
+ Unio auricularius Spengler, 1793 — Westerlund, 1890: 51.
= Unio (Baryana) sinuatus de Lamarck — Locard, 1889: 124.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck — Drouët, 1889: 43, sp. 1.
= Unio (Limnium sec. Potamida) sinuatus Lamarck — Fischer, 1886: 1000.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck, 1819 — Bourguignat, 1883: 11.
= Unio sinuatus Lam. — Drouët, 1883: 21.
= Unio (Groupe de l’U. sinuatus) sinuatus Lamarck — Locard, 1882: 283.
+ Margaron (Unio) crassus (Retz.) — Lea, 1870: 62.
= Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 — Sowerby, 1868: pl. 62, sp. 311.
= Unio sinuatus Lam. — Colbeau, 1868: 106.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck — Malzine, 1867: 31.
= Unio (Lymnium) sinuatus — Drouët, 1857: 209.
= Unio (Lymnium) sinuatus Lam. — Moquin-Tandon, 1855: 567.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck — Küster, 1855: 129, pl. 37, fig. 1.
= Unio sinuatus Lam. — Rossmässler, 1854: 38, pl. 70, fig. 853.
+ Margaron (Unio) crassus (Retz.) — Lea, 1852: 39.
= Unio (Ponderosi) sinuatus Lamk. — Dupuy, 1852: 630, pl. 23, fig. 7a-c.
= Unio sinuatus (Lamk.) — Gassies, 1849: 198.
= Alasmodonta sinuata Lk. — C.B. Adams, 1847: 14.
= Unio sinuatus Lam. — Dupuy, 1843: 84.
+ Unio crassissimus Fer. — Hanley, 1843: 209.
= Unio sinuata Lam. — Sganzin, 1841: 8.
= Mysca (Potomida) sinuata Lamarck, 1819 — Swainson, 1840: 262, 268-269, 274, 281, 379.
+ Margarita (Unio) crassissimus Fer. Des Moul. Grat. — Lea, 1838: 26.
+ Margarita (Unio) auricularis [sic] (Spengler, 1793) — Lea, 1836: 40.
= Unio sinuatus Lam. — Rossmässler, 1836: 22, pl. 13, fig. 195.
= Unio sinuata Lam. — Held, 1836: 281.
= Unio sinuata Lamarck — Lea, 1834: 86.
= Unio sinuata Lamk. — Deshayes, 1832: 579.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck, 1819 — Menke, 1830: 106.
+ Alasmodonta [sic] margaritifera Linnaeus — Lea, 1829: 421.
= Unio sinuatus Lamarck, 1819 — Menke, 1828: 63.
= Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 — Bory de St. Vincent, 1827: 151, pl. 248, fig. 1.
= Unio sinuata Lam. — Férussac, 1827: 417.
= Unio sinuata — Blainville, 1825: 539, pl. 67, fig. 3.
= Unio sinuata Lamarck — Children, 1823: 25, pl. 1 [2], fig. 69.
+ Unio margaritifera Linn. — Nilsson, 1822: 103.
= Unio sinuata — Lamarck, 1819: 70.
+ Unio margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bosc, 1801: 142.
