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

nominal species Iridina esula d’Orbigny, 1835

Iridina esula d’Orbigny, 1835 = Leila esula

‘Jan.’ d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 43.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5(3): 597.
Type(s): TYPE LOST BMNH_UNKNOWN, “tous les lacs du centre de la Bolivia; pays des Guarayos, province de Chiquitos, et dans toute la province de Moxos”.

= Leila esula

Taxonomic Opinions

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Mansur et al., 2020

= Leila esula (Orbigny, 1835) — Pereira et al., 2014

= Leila esula d’Orbigny, 1835 — Bogan, 2010

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

+ Leila blainvilleana [sic] (Lea, 1835) — Simone, 2006

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Ramírez et al., 2003

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1846) Hupé — Quintana, 1982

= Leila esula (Orbigny, 1846) — Veitenheimer, 1973

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Haas, 1969

= Leila esula (Orbigny) — Thiele, 1934

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Haas, 1931

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Simpson, 1914

= Leila esula (d’Orbigny, 1835) — Simpson, 1900

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

= Margaron (Columba) esula (Jan.) — Lea, 1870

= Leila esula (Gray) — Hupé, 1857

= Leila esula “Crist. & Jan.” — Adams & Adams, 1857

= Margaron (Anodonta) esula (Jan.) — Lea, 1852

= Iridina esula d’Orb., 1835 — d’Orbigny, 1846

= Anodonta esula Cristofori and Jan — Hanley, 1843

= Margarita (Anodonta) esula Jan. — Lea, 1838

= Iridina esula “d’Orb.” — d’Orbigny, 1835

 
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