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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina | Rhombuniopsis

species Rhombuniopsis tauriformis (Fulton, 1906): synonymy

6 specimens

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Unio (Cuneopsis) tauriformis Fulton, 1906

Fulton, 1906. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 246, pl. 9, fig. 9.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1906-5-8-72, Yunnan fu-Yunnan, China.

Cuneopsis tauriformis — Simpson (1914)
Rhombuniopsis tauriformis — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), ... Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cuneopsis tauriformis — Simpson (1914)
Rhombuniopsis tauriformis — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), ... Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)

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