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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Quadrulini | Quadrulina | Pustulosa succissa

nominal species Unio cacao Lea, 1859

Unio cacao Lea, 1859 = Pustulosa succissa

Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 154.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 8]: 344, pl. 56, fig. 169.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85724, Choctahatchee R., W. Florida.

= Pustulosa succissa

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Cyclonaias succissa (Lea, 1852) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2019

+ Quadrula succissa (Lea, 1852) — Williams et al., 2014

+ Quadrula succissa (Lea, 1852) — Williams et al., 2011

+ Quadrula succissa (Lea, 1852) — Williams et al., 2008

+ Fusconaia succissa (Lea, 1852) — Burch, 1975

+ Fusconaia succissa succissa (Lea, 1852) — Haas, 1969

+ Fusconaia succissus (Lea, 1852) — Clench & Turner, 1956

+ Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) succissa (Lea, 1852) — Frierson, 1927

+ Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) succissa (Lea, 1852) — Simpson, 1914

+ Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) succissa (Lea, 1852) — Simpson, 1900

= Unio cacao Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888

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