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Bivalvia | Unionida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Monocondylaeinae | Monocondylaea paraguayana
nominal species Unio (Monocondylaea) paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835
Unio (Monocondylaea) paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 = Monocondylaea paraguayana
d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 37.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5(3): 612, pl. 70, figs. 5-7 [as ‘Monocondylaea paraguayana’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1854-9-4-13, Rio Paraná, Prov. Corrientes, Argentina.
Taxonomic Opinions
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Torres et al., 2024: 7.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 28.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Mansur et al., 2020: 422, fig. 11.125G.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (Orbigny, 1835) — Torres et al., 2018: 3.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (Orbigny, 1835) — Pereira et al., 2014: [9].
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Bogan, 2010: [21].
= Monocondylea [sic] paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Rumi et al., 2008: 85.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 314.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny, 1835 — Simone, 2006: 291, fig. 1022.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Quintana, 1982: 132.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny, 1835 — Mansur, 1970: 49.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Haas, 1969: 554.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Haas, 1969: N465, fig. D56:2.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny, 1835 — Bonetto, 1966: 8.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Figueiras, 1965: 244.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny — Parodiz & Bonetto, 1963: 206.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny, 1835 — Morretes, 1949: 24.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny, 1835 — Modell, 1942: 175.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana Orbigny — Thiele, 1934: 841, [1279].
= Monocondylaea paraguayana paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Haas, 1931: 44.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Ortmann, 1921: 577.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Simpson, 1914: 1387.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Simpson, 1900: 911.
= Monocondylaea (s.s.) paraguayana (d’Orbigny) — Fischer, 1886: 1001, pl. 18, fig. 2.
= Unio (Monocondylæa) paraguayana — Woodward, 1871: 434, pl. 18, fig. 2.
= Margaron (Monocondylœa) [sic] paraguayana (d’Orb.) — Lea, 1870: 73.
= Unio paraguayana (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Sowerby, 1866: pl. 52, sp. 273.
= Monocondylea paraguayana d’Orbigny — Petit de la Saussaye, 1865: 17.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana (d’Orb.) — Adams & Adams, 1857: 501, 500, pl. 117, fig. 3a-b.
= Margaron (Monocondylœa) [sic] paraguayana (d’Orb.) — Lea, 1852: 45.
= Monocondylæa paraguayana d’Orb., 1835 — d’Orbigny, 1846: 612, pl. 70, figs. 5-7.
= Unio paraguayana d’Orbig. — Hanley, 1843: 212, pl. 22, fig. 17.
= Monocondylaea paraguayana d’Orbigny, 1835 — Sowerby, 1839: 65, fig. 149.
= Margarita (Margaritana) paraguayana Lea — Lea, 1838: 27.
= Unio (Monocondylaea) paraguayana d’Orb. — d’Orbigny, 1835: 37.
