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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina | Protunio

species Protunio messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901): synonymy

27 specimens

Synonymy

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Unio messageri Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901

Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901. J. de Conch. 49: 7, pl. 1, figs. 3-4.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0118, Entra Lang-Son et That-Khe.

Unio messageri — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) messageri — Simpson (1914)
Protunio messageri — 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)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio messageri — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) messageri — Simpson (1914)
Protunio messageri — 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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