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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Leilinae | Leila esula

nominal species Iridina blainvilliana d’Orbigny, 1835

Iridina blainvilliana d’Orbigny, 1835 = Leila esula

‘Lea’ of Authors.
d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 43.
Hupé, 1857. [in] Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Rares d’Amer. Sud: 91.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta blainvilliana Lea, 1834)

= Leila esula

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Leila blainvilliana (Lea, 1834) — Mansur & Pereira, 2006

+ Leila blainvilliana (Lea, 1834) — Veitenheimer, 1973

+ Columba esula (Jan, 1837) — Ihering, 1890

+ Columba blainvilliana Lea — Miller, 1879

 
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