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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Popenaiadini | Nephritica poeyana

nominal species Unio poeyanus Lea, 1857

Unio poeyanus Lea, 1857 = Nephritica poeyana

Lea, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 85.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 315 [35], pl. 32, fig. 30.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] USNM_85894 (by R.I. Johnson, 1974: 115), Rio de las Balsas, near Coyucan, Mexico.

= Nephritica poeyana

Taxonomic Opinions

= Nephritica poeyana (Lea, 1857) — Cummings et al., 2025

= Nephritica poeyana (I. Lea, 1857) — Czaja et al., 2023

= Nephritica poeyana (Lea, 1857) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Nephritica poeyana Lea, 1857 — Bogan, 2010

= Nephritica poeyana (Lea, 1857) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

= Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyana (Lea, 1857) — Haas, 1969

= Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyanus (Lea, 1857) — Haas, 1969

= Elliptio poeyana (Lea) — Thiele, 1934

= Elliptio (Nephritica) poeyanus (Lea, 1857) — Frierson, 1927

= Unio (sec. Elliptio) poeyanus Lea, 1857 — Simpson, 1914

= Unio (sec. Elliptio) poeyanus Lea, 1857 — Simpson, 1900

= Unio (Nephronaias) poeyanus Lea, 1857 — Martens, 1900

= Unio (Graphonaias) poeyanus Lea, 1857 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894

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

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

= Unio poeyanus Lea, 1857 — Sowerby, 1868