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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lepidodesmini | Lepidodesma

species Lepidodesma aligera (Heude, 1877): synonymy

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Synonymy

Unio languilati var. aligerus Heude, 1877

specimen image from publicationHeude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 17, fig. 37.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio languilati Heude, 1874)

Lepidodesma aligera — Simpson (1900), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lepidodesma aliger — Simpson (1914)
Lepidodesma aligerum — Haas (1969)
Lepidodesma languilati — He & Zhuang (2013)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lepidodesma aligera — Simpson (1900), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lepidodesma aliger — Simpson (1914)
Lepidodesma aligerum — Haas (1969)
Lepidodesma languilati — He & Zhuang (2013)

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