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nominal species Unio rugulosus Küster, 1856

Unio rugulosus Küster, 1856 = unionoid species

specimen image from publication‘Charpentier mss.’ Küster, 1856. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 154, pl. 44, fig. 5.
(homonym of Unio rugulosus Wood, 1828)
Type(s): TYPE LOST XXX_UNKNOWN, Neuholland.

= nomen dubium

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Cummings et al., 2025

= Nephronaias rugulosa (Küster, 1856) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Nephronaias rugulosa Charpentier in Kuster, 1856 — Bogan, 2010

= Nephronaias rugulosa (Charpentier in Küster, 1856) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

= Nephronaias (s.s.) rugulosa (Charpentier in Küster, 1856) — Haas, 1969

+ Iredale, 1934

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) rugulosa (Charpentier in Küster) — Haas, 1929

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) rugolosus [sic] (Charpentier in Küster, 1856) — Frierson, 1927

= Nephronaias rugulosa (Charpentier in Küster, 1856) — Simpson, 1914

+ Nephronaias tabascoensis (Küster, 1856) — Ihering, 1901

= Nephronaias rugulosus (Charpentier in Küster, 1856) — Simpson, 1900

+ Unio (Simonaias) dysoni Lea, 1859 — Martens, 1900

= Unio rugulosus Charpentier — E.A. Smith, 1882

= Unio rugulosus Charpentier — Küster, 1856

 
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