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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini | Lamprotula

species Lamprotula kouangensis (Simpson, 1900): synonymy

3 specimens

Synonymy

Unio moreletianus Heude, 1883

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 60, fig. 117.
(renamed Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensis Simpson, 1900; homonym of Unio moreletianus Folin & Bérillon, 1877)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensisSimpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) moreletianaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula moreletianaHaas (1969)
Lamprotula kouangensisHe & Zhuang (2013)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensis Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 799, footnote.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 923 [as ‘konangensis’].
(new name for Unio moreletianus Heude, 1883)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensisSimpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) moreletianaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula moreletianaHaas (1969)
Lamprotula kouangensisGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Quadrula konangensis Simpson, 1914

‘Simpson, 1900’ Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 923.
(error for Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensis Simpson, 1900)

Lamprotula moreletianaHaas (1969)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) kouangensisSimpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) moreletianaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula moreletianaHaas (1969)
Lamprotula kouangensisGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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