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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Margaritifera margaritifera

nominal species Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819

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Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819 = Margaritifera margaritifera

Pennant, 1777. British Zool. 4: pl. 43, fig. 18.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 70, sp. 2.
Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0028, Habite dans les rivières de l’Angleterre, et probablement du nord de l’Europe [Lives in the rivers of England and Northern Europe probably].

= Margaritifera margaritifera

Taxonomic Opinions

= Margaritifera margaritifera elongata (Lamarck, 1819) — Bogatov, 2022

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Vinarski & Kantor, 2016

+ Margaritifera margaritiferaBolotov et al., 2013

+ Margaritifera margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 — Fauna Europaea, 2012

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Kantor et al., 2010

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Araujo et al., 2009

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Watters et al., 2009

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1858) [sic] — Graf, 2007

= Margaritifera elongata (Lamarck, 1819) — Kantor & Sysoev, 2005

= Margaritifera elongata (Lamarck, 1819) — Starobogatov et al., 2004

= Margaritifera elongata (Lamarck, 1819) — Bogatov et al., 2003

+ Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Ziuganov et al., 1994

+ Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Haas, 1969

+ Margaritifera margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Haas, 1940

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linné) — Germain, 1931

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Simpson, 1914

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus) — Preston, 1912

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Simpson, 1900

= Margaritana elongata de Lamarck — Locard, 1899

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Lin.) — Drouët, 1898

= Margaritana elongata Lamarck — Dumas, 1895

= Margaritana elongata de Lamarck — Locard, 1893

= Margaritana (Margaritiferana) elongataFagot, 1893

= Margaritana elongataFagot, 1892

= Margaritana margaritifera forma elongata (Lam.) — Westerlund, 1890

= Margaritana elongata de Lamarck — Locard, 1889

+ Margaron (Margaritana) margaritifera (Lin.) — Lea, 1870

= Unio elongatus Lamarck, 1819 — Sowerby, 1868

= Margaritana margaritifera var. elongata Lam. — Colbeau, 1868

+ Unio (Margaritana) margaritifer (Linn., 1758) — Drouët, 1857

= Unio (Margaritana) margaritifer var. C elongatus Lam. — Moquin-Tandon, 1855

+ Unio margaritifer Linné — Küster, 1855

+ Unio (Baphia) margaritifera (L.) — Mörch, 1853

+ Margaron (Margaritana) margaritifera (Lin.) — Lea, 1852

+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linn.) — Dupuy, 1852

= Damaris elongataLeach, 1852

+ Alasmodon margaritiferusBrown, 1844

= Margaritana elongata (Lamarck, 1819) — Swainson, 1840

+ Margarita (Margaritana) margaritifera Lea — Lea, 1838

+ Margarita (Margaritana) margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Lea, 1836

+ Unio margaritifera Pfieff. — Held, 1836

+ Alasmodonta margaritifera (Linné) — Ferussac, 1835

+ Unio margaritifer Retz. — Rossmässler, 1835

= Unio elongataJay, 1835

+ Unio margaritifera Linnaeus — Lea, 1834

+ Alasmodonta [sic] margaritifera Linnaeus — Lea, 1829

+ Unio margaritiferus “Gaertn.” — Menke, 1828

= Unio elongatus Lamarck, 1819 — Wood, 1828

= Unio elongata Lam. — Nilsson, 1822

+ Unio margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Pfeiffer, 1821

= Unio elongataLamarck, 1819

 
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