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nominal species Unio catawbensis Lea, 1857

Unio catawbensis Lea, 1857 = Elliptio complanata

Lea, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 104.
Lea, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: 54 [58], pl. 1, fig. 200.
(new name for Unio wheatleyi Lea, 1857)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85547, Catawba R., N.C.

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) — Bieler, 2021: 20.

+ Elliptio (s.s.) complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) — Burch, 1975: 160.

+ Elliptio (s.s.) complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) — R.I. Johnson, 1970: 315.

+ Elliptio (s.s.) violaceus wheatleyi (Lea, 1857) — Haas, 1969: 239.

= Elliptio (s.s.) complanatus-catawbensis (Lea, 1862) — Frierson, 1927: 32, sp. 105k.

+ Unio (sec. Elliptio) rostrum Lea, 1862 — Simpson, 1914: 660.

+ — de Gregorio, 1914: 58.

= Unio (sec. Elliptio) catawbensis Lea, 1862 — Simpson, 1900: 725.

= Unio catawbensis Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888: [2].

= Margaron (Unio) catawbensis (Lea) — Lea, 1870: 52.