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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini | Acuticosta
species Acuticosta ovata (Simpson, 1900): synonymy
6 specimens + 2 GenBank vouchers
Synonymy
Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
(renamed Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata Simpson, 1900; homonym of Unio vestitus Lea, 1861)
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 112.
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovata — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata Simpson, 1900
(new name for Unio vestitus Heude, 1883)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 801.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 933.
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovata — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Huang et al. (2002), ... Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Liu et al. (2022), Wang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026)
Acuticosta retiaria — Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Parreysia hunanensis Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 42: 97.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_3595_2, Hunan [Húnán], Hubei [Húběi], Mittelchina [China].
Parreysia hunanensis — Haas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovata — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata — Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta trisulcata triangula Tchang et al., 1965
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio trisulcatus Heude, 1883)
Tchang et al., 1965. Acta Zool. Sinica 17(2): ??.
Acuticosta trisulcata triangula — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Acuticosta triangula — Hu (2005)
Acuticosta ovata — He & Zhuang (2013)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia hunanensis — Haas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovata — Haas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Huang et al. (2002), ... Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Liu et al. (2022), Wang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026)
Acuticosta trisulcata triangula — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Acuticosta triangula — Hu (2005)
Acuticosta retiaria — Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
