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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Amblemini | Amblema plicata

nominal species Unio atrocostatus Lea, 1845

Unio atrocostatus Lea, 1845 = Amblema plicata

Lea, 1845. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4: 163.
specimen image from publicationLea, 1848. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 10 [O. 4]: 70 [44], pl. 2, fig. 5 [as ‘atro-costatus’].

= Amblema plicata

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) — He & Zhuang, 2013

+ Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820) — Watters et al., 2009

+ Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) — Williams et al., 2008

+ Amblema plicata costata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969

+ Amblema (s.s.) plicata-perplicata (Conrad, 1841) — Frierson, 1927

+ Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) perplicata (Conrad, 1841) — Simpson, 1914

+ de Gregorio, 1914

+ Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) perplicata (Conrad, 1841) — Simpson, 1900

+ Unio undulatus Barnes, 1823 — Call, 1895

= Unio (sec. Dysnomia) atrocostatus Lea, 1848 — Paetel, 1890

= Unio atrocostatus Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888

= Margaron (Unio) atrocostatus (Lea) — Lea, 1870

= Unio atrocostatus Lea, 1848 — Sowerby, 1868

= Unio atrocostatus Lea, 1848 — Reeve, 1864

= Unio (Dysnomia) atrocostatus Lea — Adams & Adams, 1857

+ Plectomerus perplicatus (Con.) — Conrad, 1853

= Complanaria atrocostatusAgassiz, 1852

= Margaron (Unio) atrocostatus (Lea) — Lea, 1852

 
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