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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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species Sphaerium fabale (Prime, 1852): synonymy
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Cyclas castanea Prime, 1852
Prime, 1852. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 159.
Prime, 1853. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 273.

Sphaerium (s.s.) fabaleBurch (1975)

Cyclas fabalis Prime, 1852
Prime, 1852. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 159.
Prime, 1853. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 273.
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 40, fig. 33.

Sphaerium fabaleHerrington (1962), Turgeon et al. (1998), Mackie (2007), Schultheiß et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Stunžėnas et al. (2011), ITIS (2012), Clewing et al. (2013), Bespalaya et al. (2017), Metzger et al. (2018), Saito et al. (2022)
Sphaerium (s.s.) fabaleBurch (1975), Cooley & Ó Foighil (2000)
Sphaerium (Amesoda) fabaleLee & Ó Foighil (2003), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
“Sphaerium (S)” fabaleFuentealba-Jara et al. (2017)

Cyclas sulculosa Prime, 1865
‘de Charpentier, Mss.’ Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 40.
‘De Charpentier, in litt.’ Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 153. [nomen nudum]
(intro'd as syn of Cyclas fabalis Prime, 1852)

Sphaerium (s.s.) fabaleBurch (1975)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Sphaerium fabaleHerrington (1962), Turgeon et al. (1998), Mackie (2007), Schultheiß et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Stunžėnas et al. (2011), ITIS (2012), Clewing et al. (2013), Bespalaya et al. (2017), Metzger et al. (2018), Saito et al. (2022)
Sphaerium (s.s.) fabaleBurch (1975), Cooley & Ó Foighil (2000)
Sphaerium (Amesoda) fabaleLee & Ó Foighil (2003), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
“Sphaerium (S)” fabaleFuentealba-Jara et al. (2017)

 
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