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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae | Gibbosula laosensis

nominal species Unio laoensis Sowerby, 1866

Unio laoensis Sowerby, 1866 = Gibbosula laosensis

‘Lea’ of Authors.
specimen image from publicationSowerby, 1866. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 47, sp. 256.
Haas, 1910. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 42): pl. 12, caption.
(error for Unio laosensis Lea, 1863)

= Gibbosula laosensis

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Margaritana laosensis (Lea, 1863) — Simpson, 1900

= Unio laoensis ‘Lea MS’ — Sowerby, 1866

 
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