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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini | Lamprotula leaii

nominal species Unio nodulosus Reeve, 1864

Unio nodulosus Reeve, 1864 = Lamprotula leaii

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)

= Lamprotula leaii

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Lamprotula leaii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2020

+ Lamprotula leaii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) — He & Zhuang, 2013

+ Lamprotula leai (Gray, 1834) — Prozorova et al., 2005

+ Lamprotula leai (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) — Liu et al., 1979

+ Lamprotula leai (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) — Haas, 1969

+ Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) — Simpson, 1914

+ Unio (Quadrula) leai var. richtofeni [sic] von Martens — Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905

+ Quadrula (Lamprotula) leai (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) — Simpson, 1900

+ Margaron (Unio) leaii (Gray) — Lea, 1870

 
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