Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio

species Pseudunio homsensis (Lea, 1865): synonymy

20 specimens

Synonymy

Unio homsensis Lea, 1865

Lea, 1865. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 285.
Lea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 249 [9], pl. 29, fig. 63.
SYNTYPE ANSP_125718, Orontes R., Lake Homs, N. Syria.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) homsensis — Simpson (1900)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) homsensis — Germain (1911)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) homsensis — Simpson (1914)
Psilunio littoralis homsensis — Haas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensis — Haas (1969)
“Potomida littoralis homsensis” ** — Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensis — Falkner (1994), D.G. Smith (2001), Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023), Nakamura et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritifera homsensis — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2017), Vikhrev et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Bashê (2022)

Unio episcopalis Tristram, 1865

Tristram, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1865: 544.
LECTOTYPE BMNH_1936-3-10-3 (by R.I. Johnson, 1971: 83), River Orontes.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) episcopalis — Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) episcopalis — Simpson (1914)
Psilunio littoralis homsensis — Haas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensis — Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensis — D.G. Smith (2001)

Unio barroisi Drouët, 1893

Drouët, 1893. J. de Conch. 41: 36.
PARATYPE SMF_4548, A.d. Nahr el Haroun, Syrien.

Psilunio littoralis homsensis — Haas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensis — Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensis — D.G. Smith (2001)

Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929

Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 34; ‘Abb.’.
Pallary, 1933. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Natur. 5: 149. [nomen nudum]
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 115.
SYNTYPES BMNH_1937-12-30-13052-13053, Le Nahr el Kabir a Tell Kalat [Syria].

Margaritana syriaca — Pallary (1939)
Psilunio littoralis homsensis — Haas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensis — Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensis — D.G. Smith (2001)

Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosa Pallary, 1929

(intro'd as intra-sp. of Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929; homonym of Margaritana dernaica var. ponderosa Pallary, 1928)
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 36.
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 116.
SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0077, L’Oued el Kebir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites).

Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosa — Pallary (1939)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Lymnium) homsensis — Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) episcopalis — Simpson (1900)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) homsensis — Germain (1911)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) homsensis — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) episcopalis — Simpson (1914)
Margaritana syriaca — Pallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosa — Pallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. minor — Pallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. quadrata — Pallary (1939)
Psilunio littoralis homsensis — Haas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensis — Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
“Potomida littoralis homsensis” ** — Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensis — Falkner (1994), D.G. Smith (2001), Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023), Nakamura et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritifera homsensis — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2017), Vikhrev et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Bashê (2022)