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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Popenaiadini | Nephronaias ravistella

nominal species Unio veraepacis Tristram, 1863

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Unio veraepacis Tristram, 1863 = Nephronaias ravistella

Tristram, 1863. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863: 414 [as ‘veræ pacis’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) BMNH_1901-6-22-1537, Guatemala.

= Nephronaias ravistella

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Nephronaias ravistella (Morelet, 1849) — Cummings et al., 2025

+ Nephronaias ravistella (Morelet, 1849) — Inoue et al., 2020

+ Popenaias popei (Lea, 1857) — Howells et al., 1996

+ Nephronaias (Popenaias) popeii (Lea, 1857) — Haas, 1969

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) verae-pacis (Tristram) — Haas, 1929

+ Elliptio (Popenaias) popei (Lea, 1857) — Frierson, 1927

+ Unio (sec. Elliptio) popeii Lea, 1857 — Simpson, 1914

= Unio (sec. Elliptio) verae-pacis Tristram, 1863 — Simpson, 1900

= Unio (Elliptio) ravistellus var. veraepacis Tristram, 1863 — Martens, 1900

= Unio veræ pacis Tristram, 1863 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894

= Unio veræ pacis Trist — B.H. Wright, 1888

+ Lea, 1870

 
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