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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Indochinellini | Scabies

species Scabies scobinatus (Lea, 1856): synonymy
     102 specimens + 7 Genbank vouchers

Unio scobinatus Lea, 1856
Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 93.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 299 [19], pl. 26, fig. 13.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84145, Siam.

Nodularia (s.s.) scobinataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) scobinatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) scobinataHaas (1911)
Nodularia (s.s.) crispataPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Nodularia (Scabies) scobinataHaas (1924)
Scabies scobinataThiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007), IUCN (2010), He & Zhuang (2013)
Scabies scobinatusDang et al. (1980), WoRMS (2017), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Jeratthitikul et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025)

Unio pellislacerti Morelet, 1865
Morelet, 1865. J. de Conch. 13: 22 [as ‘pellis-lacerti’].
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 355, pl. 17, fig. 5 [as ‘pellis-lacerti].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1969, Cochin China.

Nodularia (s.s.) scobinataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) scobinatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) scobinataHaas (1911)
Nodularia (s.s.) crispataPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Nodularia (Scabies) scobinataHaas (1924)
Scabies scobinataHaas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), He & Zhuang (2013)
Scabies scobinatusDang et al. (1980)

Unio venustus Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 63.

Nodularia (s.s.) scobinataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) scobinatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) scobinataHaas (1911)
Nodularia (s.s.) crispataPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Scabies scobinataHaas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio oblitus Lea, 1870
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 64.

Nodularia (s.s.) scobinataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) scobinataHaas (1911)
Nodularia (s.s.) crispataPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Scabies scobinataHaas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio pellis-lacertae Haas, 1911
‘Morelet’ Haas, 1911. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 45): 109.

Nodularia (Scabies) scobinataHaas (1924)

Unio oblatus Preston, 1912
‘Lea’ Preston, 1912. Rec. Ind. Mus. 7: 291.

Scabies phaselus Dai et al., 2024
Dai et al., 2024. Invert. Syst. 38(6): fig. 3.

Scabies scobinatusDai et al. (2024)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) scobinataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) scobinatusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) scobinataHaas (1911)
Nodularia (s.s.) crispataPreston (1912), Preston (1915)
Nodularia (Scabies) scobinataHaas (1924)
Scabies scobinataThiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007), IUCN (2010), He & Zhuang (2013)
Scabies scobinatusDang et al. (1980), WoRMS (2017), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Jeratthitikul et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025)

 
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