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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini | Lamprotula caveata
nominal species Unio caveatus Heude, 1877
Unio caveatus Heude, 1877 = Lamprotula caveata
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 24, fig. 53.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3400, Hou Nan, Chine.
Taxonomic Opinions
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 290.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Dai et al., 2025: Table 2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Dai et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Chen et al., 2025: Table S3.
= Lamprotula caveata — Chen et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 2024: 4, 7, Tables 1-2.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Liu et al., 2024: Tables 1-2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 2024: Table S2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Matos et al., 2024: 895.
= Lamprotula caveata — Matos et al., 2024: 698.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Dai et al., 2024: Table 3.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 2024: Tables S2-S3.
= Lamprotula caveata — Dai et al., 2024: Table 2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Zhang et al., 2024: Tables S2-S3.
= Lamprotula caveata — Hou et al., 2024: Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Konopleva et al., 2023: Table S1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Dai et al., 2023: 156, 157, Tables 1-2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 2023: Table 2.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2022: Table S2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Goncalves et al., 2022: 2.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 21.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2021: 87.
= Lamprotula caveata — Zieritz et al., 2021: 1091.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2021: attached Tables 1-2.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2020: 17, Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al., 2020: [7].
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Bolotov et al., 2020: Table S1.
= Lamprotula caveata — Fukata & Iigo, 2020: 1216.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 2020: 195.
= Lamprotula caveata — Sano et al., 2020: 100.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2020: 54.
= Lamprotula caveata — Chen et al., 2020: 2800.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Zieritz et al., 2018: online Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Do et al., 2018: 9.
= Lamprotula caveata — Huang et al., 2018: 304.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Wu et al., 2018: 6.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wang et al., 2018: 611.
= Lamprotula caveata — Aunins et al., 2018: 1125.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wang et al., 2018: 140.
= Lamprotula caveata — Cha et al., 2018: 946.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2017: 177.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Bolotov et al., 2017: [15], Table S1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Bolotov et al., 2017: Table S1.
= Lamprotula caveata — Zhou et al., 2017: 235.
= Lamprotula caveata — Soliman et al., 2016: 122.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015: 310.
= Lamprotula caveata — Ouyang et al., 2015: Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata — Ouyang et al., 2015: Table 1.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013: 251.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — He & Zhuang, 2013: 59, figs. 133-138.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — IUCN, 2012: [web].
= Lamprotula caveata — Xiong et al., 2012: 128, Table 2.
= Lamprotula caveata — Ouyang et al., 2011: 544.
= Lamprotula caveata Heude, 1877 — Bogan, 2010: [17].
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 310.
= Lamprotula caveata — Zhou et al., 2007: 1025.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Prozorova et al., 2005: 52.
= Lamprotula caveata — Hu, 2005: 81.
= Lamprotula caveata — Zhang et al., 2004: 295.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude) — Wu et al., 2000: 252.
= Lamprotula caveata — Wu et al., 1999: 140.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude) — Wei et al., 1994: 304.
= Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al., 1980: 366.
= Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877) — Liu et al., 1979: 93, fig. 81.
+ Lamprotula leai (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) — Haas, 1969: 282.
= Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata (Heude, 1877) — Simpson, 1914: 934.
= Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata (Heude, 1877) — Simpson, 1900: 801.
= Unio caveatus Heude — Heude, 1877: pl. 24, fig. 53.
