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Unio cistellaeformis Lea, 1863

Lea, 1863. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 15: 192 [as ‘cistellæformis’].
Lea, 1866. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 19 [23], pl. 6, fig. 17 [as ‘cistellæformis’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85533, Neuse R., near Raleigh, N. Carolina.

Unio (sec. Elliptio) insulsus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) insulsus — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) complanata — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio cistelliformis [sic] — Davis et al. (1981), Davis (1984), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Haag (2012)
Elliptio cistellaeformis — Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025)

Unio cistelliformis Simpson, 1900

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 716.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 641.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 29.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 228.
R.I. Johnson, 1970. Bull. MCZ 140(6): 317.
Davis et al., 1981. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 15: 135.
Davis, 1984. Malacologia 25(2): 631.
Williams et al., 1993. Fisheries 18(9): 11.
Haag, 2012. N. Amer. Freshw. Mussels: 73.
(error for Unio cistellaeformis Lea, 1863)

Elliptio cistellaeformis — Turgeon et al. (1998), MolluscaBase (2024)