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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Protunio Haas, 1912: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Protunio Haas, 1912

Haas, 1912. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): pl. 32.
Haas, 1913. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 37.
Haas, 1919. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 51): 257.
Type species: Unio messageri Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901 (orig. desig.) = Protunio messageri

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Protunio, since 1900.

Unio — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1914)
Protunio — Haas (1919), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Dang et al. (1980), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018), Bogan & Do (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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