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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Contradentini | Physunio species Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843): synonymy
99 specimens + 13 Genbank vouchers Unio superbus Lea, 1843
 Lea, 1843. [privately published sheet]: [1].
Lea, 1845. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 9 [O. 4]: 281, pl. 42, fig. 11.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_83934, New Holland.
Physunio (s.s.) superbus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1969)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), Marwoto (1987), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
— B.J. Smith (1992) | |
Unio gravidus Lea, 1856
 Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 93.
 Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 292 [12], pl. 24, fig. 5.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_83935, Siam.
Physunio (s.s.) gravidus — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1919), Thiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969)
Physunio (s.s.) superbus — Haas (1969)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2011), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021) | |
Unio velaris Hanley, 1856
 ‘Benson, MS’ Hanley, 1856. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells, Suppl.: 385, pl. 23, fig. 42.
Physunio (s.s.) superbus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1969)
Physunio (sec. Lens) velaris — Preston (1915)
Physunio (Lens) velaris — Prashad (1932)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), Pfeiffer et al. (2021) | |
Unio abnormis Morelet, 1862
 Morelet, 1862. Rev. Mag. Zool. 14: 480.
Type(s): SYNTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1394, Siam.
Physunio (s.s.) gravidus — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1919)
Physunio (s.s.) superbus — Haas (1969)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), IUCN (2011), Pfeiffer et al. (2021) | |
Physunio eximius van Benthem Jutting, 1953
‘Lea’ of Authors.
van Benthem Jutting, 1953. Treubia 22(1): 43.
Sahidin et al., 2021. AACL Bioflux 14(6): fig. 7.
(misidentified reference to Unio eximius Lea, 1856)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974) | |
Unio superbus Sowerby, 1867
 ‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 59, sp. 295.
(reference to Unio superbus Lea, 1843)
Physunio (s.s.) gravidus — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1919)
Physunio superbus — Pfeiffer et al. (2021) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Physunio (s.s.) superbus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1969)
Physunio (s.s.) gravidus — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1919), Thiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969)
Physunio (sec. Lens) velaris — Preston (1915)
Physunio (Lens) velaris — Prashad (1932)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), Marwoto (1987), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
— B.J. Smith (1992)
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