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

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

165 specimens + 16 Genbank vouchers

Synonymy

Unio leaii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833

specimen image from publicationGray 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) leaiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (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 leaiiGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Fonseca et al. (2016), ... Hou et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) leaiFang et al. (2009)
L. leaiiSheng et al. (2014)
Lamprotula sp.Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

image of type lot

Unio leleci Heude, 1875

specimen image from publicationHeude, 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. leleciSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula leleciLiu et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula leaiiHe & 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. leleciSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leai var. richtofeni [sic]Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula leaiiHe & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

image of type lot

Unio gottschei Martens, 1894

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

Unio (Quadrula) gottscheiMartens (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) gottscheiSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula gottscheiKil (1976), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Park & Kwon (1993), Prozorova et al. (2005), ... Sano et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Kim et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022)
Aculamprotula gottscheiAraujo et al. (2017)
Lamprotula leaiiLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Unio leai var. truncatula Neumayr, 1899

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

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. truncatulaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1920), Haas (1969)
Lamprotula leaiiHe & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

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

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

Unio (Quadrula) leai var. ponderosaDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. ponderosaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula ponderosaDang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011)
Lamprotula leaiiHe & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

Unio leeai Hanley, 1843

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

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leaiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)

Unio nodulosus Reeve, 1864

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

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

Unio richtofeni Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) leaiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. leleciSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) gottscheiMartens (1905)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Unio (Quadrula) leai var. richtofeni [sic]Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Unio (Quadrula) leai var. ponderosaDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. truncatulaSimpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai var. ponderosaSimpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) gottscheiSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (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 gottscheiKil (1976), Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Park & Kwon (1993), Prozorova et al. (2005), ... Sano et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Kim et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022)
Lamprotula ponderosaDang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011)
Lamprotula leleciLiu et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Bogan (2010), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula leaiiGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Fonseca et al. (2016), ... Hou et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) leaiFang et al. (2009)
L. leaiiSheng et al. (2014)
Aculamprotula gottscheiAraujo et al. (2017)
Lamprotula sp.Lopes-Lima et al. (2020)

 
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