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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Pseudodontoideus subvexus

nominal species Unio spillmannii Sowerby, 1868

Unio spillmannii Sowerby, 1868 = Pseudodontoideus subvexus

specimen image from publication‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 82, pl. 435.
(error for Margaritana spillmanii Lea, 1858)

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Strophitus spillmanii (Lea, 1858) — Simpson, 1900: 619.

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