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nominal species Unio aeruginosus Morelet, 1849

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Unio aeruginosus Morelet, 1849 = Nephronaias aeruginosa

Morelet, 1849. Test. Nov. 1: 29 [as ‘æruginosus’].
Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] BMNH_93-2-4-2019 (by R.I. Johnson, 1971: 79), In rivulo Michol, circa Palenqueanum vicum.

Taxonomic Opinions

= Nephronaias aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Cummings et al., 2025: 229, pl. 42, Table 3, 10.

= Nephronaias aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Czaja et al., 2023: 87.

= Nephronaias aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 20.

= Nephronaias aeruginosa Morelet, 1849 — Bogan, 2010: [22].

= Nephronaias aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 308.

= Nephronaias (s.s.) aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Haas, 1969: 196.

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) aeruginosus (Morelet) — Haas, 1929: 322.

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) aeruginosus (Morelet, 1849) — Frierson, 1927: 36, sp. 128.

= Nephronaias aeruginosa (Morelet, 1849) — Simpson, 1914: 275.

= Nephronaias aeruginosus (Morelet, 1849) — Simpson, 1900: 595.

= Unio (Elliptio) aeruginosus Morelet, 1849 — Martens, 1900: 518.

= Unio (Cænonaias) æruginosus A. Morelet, 1849 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894: 596, pl. 62, figs. 2-2b.

= Unio æruginosus More. — B.H. Wright, 1888: [1].

+ Lea, 1870: 62.

+ Lea, 1852: 39.

= Unio æruginosusMorelet, 1849: 29.