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species Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843): synonymy

99 specimens + 13 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

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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 (by R.I. Johnson, 1974: 142), 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), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)

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Unio gravidus Lea, 1856

Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 93.
specimen image from publicationLea, 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

specimen image from publication‘Benson, MS’ Hanley, 1856. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 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)

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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 ‘Lea’ of Authors

(misidentified reference to Unio eximius Lea, 1856)
‘Lea’ of Authors.
van Benthem Jutting, 1953. Treubia 22(1): 43.
Sahidin et al., 2021. AACL Bioflux 14(6): fig. 7.

Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974)

Unio superbus Sowerby, 1867

(reference to Unio superbus Lea, 1843)
specimen image from publication‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 59, sp. 295.

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 eximius” ** — van Benthem Jutting (1953), Sahidin et al. (2021)
Physunio superbus — Brandt (1974), Marwoto (1987), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)