species Lamprotula leaii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833): synonymy

Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833

Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): pl. 21, fig. 1.
Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(39-40): 600.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Habe (1977), Liu et al. (1979), Dang et al. (1980), ... Wang et al. (2018), Cha et al. (2018), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020)
Lamprotula leaii — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Fonseca et al. (2016), ... Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Nahok et al. (2026)
Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) leai — Fang et al. (2009)
L. leaii — Sheng et al. (2014)
Lamprotula sp. — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio leleci Heude, 1875

Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 4, fig. 12; pl. 5, fig. 14.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3376, Lac T’o.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. leleci — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula leleci — Liu et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula leaii — He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio richthofeni Martens, 1875

Martens, 1875. S.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 1875: 3.
Martens, 1875. Malak. Blatt. 22: 187.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. leleci — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai var. richtofeni [sic] — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula leaii — He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio gottschei Martens, 1894

Martens, 1894. S.-Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin 1894: 215.
Martens, 1905. Zool. Jb., Jena, Suppl. 8: 51, pl. 2, fig. 11 [as ‘Unio (Quadrula)’].
Type(s): TYPES ZMB_38357, Pukchang, Korea.

Unio (Quadrula) gottschei — Martens (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) gottschei — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula gottschei — Kil (1976), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Park & Kwon (1993), Prozorova et al. (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020)
“Lamprotula gottschei” ** — He et al. (2016), Xue et al. (2016), Zhou et al. (2016), Fonseca et al. (2016), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), ... Chen et al. (2020), Kim et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Klymus et al. (2025)
“Aculamprotula gottschei” ** — Araujo et al. (2017)
Lamprotula leaii — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Unio leai var. truncatula Neumayr, 1899

(homonym of Unio rhomboideus var. truncatulus de Joannis, 1859; intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Neumayr, 1899. Wiss. Erg. Reise Szechény Ost-Asien 2: 643, pl. 3, fig. 8.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. truncatula — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1920), Haas (1969)
Lamprotula leaii — He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio (Quadrula) leai var. ponderosa Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905

(homonym of Mya ponderosa Dillwyn, 1817; intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905. J. de Conch. 53: 209.

Unio (Quadrula) leai var. ponderosa — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. ponderosa — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula ponderosa — Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011)
Lamprotula leaii — He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Lamprotula caveata ‘Heude’ of Authors

(misidentified reference to Unio caveatus Heude, 1877)
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Ouyang et al., 2015. J. Agri. Biotech. 23(6): Table 1. [in part]

Unio leeai Hanley, 1843

(error for Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 182, pl. 23, fig. 55.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)

Unio nodulosus Reeve, 1864

(misidentified reference to Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815)
‘Wood’ Reeve, 1864. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 9, sp. 32; errata [changed to ‘U. leai, Gray’].

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai var. richtofeni [sic] — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005)
Lamprotula leaii — He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio richtofeni Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905

(error for Unio richthofeni Martens, 1875)
‘von Martens’ Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905. J. de Conch. 53: 209.