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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Popenaiadini | Nephritica

species Nephritica poeyana (Lea, 1857): synonymy

9 specimens

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Unio poeyanus Lea, 1857

Lea, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 85.
specimen image from publicationLea, 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.

Unio (sec. Elliptio) poeyanusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nephronaias) poeyanusMartens (1900)
Elliptio (Nephritica) poeyanusFrierson (1927)
Elliptio poeyanaThiele (1934)
Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyanaHaas (1969)
Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyanusHaas (1969)
Nephritica poeyanaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Elliptio) poeyanusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nephronaias) poeyanusMartens (1900)
Elliptio (Nephritica) poeyanusFrierson (1927)
Elliptio poeyanaThiele (1934)
Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyanaHaas (1969)
Nephronaias (Nephritica) poeyanusHaas (1969)
Nephritica poeyanaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025)

 
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