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

species Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877): synonymy

23 specimens + 16 Genbank vouchers

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Unio caveatus Heude, 1877

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 24, fig. 53.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3400, Hou Nan, Chine.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Wei et al. (1994), Wu et al. (1999), Wu et al. (2000), ... Zhang et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

Unio contritus Heude, 1881

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1881. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (7): pl. 56, fig. 103.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)
Lamprotula contritus — Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Do et al. (2018)

Unio quadrangulosus Heude, 1881

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1881. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (7): pl. 56, fig. 104.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013)
Lamprotula quadrangulosus — Dang et al. (1980)
Lamprotula quadrangulosa — Bogan (2010), Do et al. (2018)

Unio quaorangulosus Liu et al., 1979

‘Heude’ Liu et al., 1979. Econ. Fauna China: 93.
‘Heude’ Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 52.
(error for Unio quadrangulosus Heude, 1881)

Lamprotula rochechouartii Zhou et al., 2007

‘Heude’ of Authors.
Zhou et al., 2007. Acta Zool. Sinica 53(6): 1025.
Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013. J. Moll. Studies 79: 251.
(misidentified reference to Unio rochechouartii Heude, 1875)

Lamprotula scripta Wang et al., 2018

of Authors.
Wang et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 10(4): 611.
Aunins et al., 2018. mtDNA B 3(2): 1125.
Wang et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 11: 140.
Cha et al., 2018. mtDNA B 3(2): 946 [as ‘Aculamprotula’].
Froufe et al., 2019. Heredity 124: 185.
Fukata & Iigo, 2020. mtDNA B 5(2): 1216.
Chen et al., 2020. mtDNA B 5(3): 2800.
(misidentified reference to Unio scriptus Heude, 1875)

Lamprotula “scripta mitogenome” — Huang et al. (2019)
Lamprotula scripta — Wu et al. (2020)
Lamprotula caveata — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Zieritz et al. (2021)

Unio covtritus Liu et al., 1979

Liu et al., 1979. Econ. Fauna China: 93.
(error for Unio contritus Heude, 1881)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Wei et al. (1994), Wu et al. (1999), Wu et al. (2000), ... Zhang et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Lamprotula contritus — Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula quadrangulosus — Dang et al. (1980)
Lamprotula rochechouarti — Zhou et al. (2007)
Lamprotula quadrangulosa — Bogan (2010), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula rochechouartii — Pfeiffer & Graf (2013)
Lamprotula scripta — Wang et al. (2018), Aunins et al. (2018), Wang et al. (2018), Froufe et al. (2019), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Wu et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)
Aculamprotula scripta — Cha et al. (2018)
Lamprotula “scripta mitogenome” — Huang et al. (2019)
 
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