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Bivalvia | Myoida | Dreissenoidea | Dreissenidae | Mytilopsis

species Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831): synonymy

3 specimens

Synonymy

Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831

Conrad, 1831. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 263, pl. 11, fig. 13.
Conrad, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 167.

Mytilopsis leucophæatusPilsbry (1911)
Mytilopsis leucophaeataOlsson (1961), Marelli & Gray (1985), Rosenberg et al. (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), Hoeh et al. (1998), ... Wesselingh et al. (2019), Kondakov et al. (2020), Ituarte (2020), Príe et al. (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Mytilopsis leucophaetus [sic]Nuttall (1990)

Mytilus cochleatus Nyst, 1835

Kickx in Nyst, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 235, figs. 1-3.

Congeria cochleatusPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Mytilopsis leucophaeataMarelli & Gray (1985), WoRMS (2011), Kennedy (2011)

Dreissena cumingiana Dunker, 1855

Dunker, 1855. Comm. de Septiferis: 14.

Mytilopsis leucophaeataMarelli & Gray (1985)

Mytilus americanus Reeve, 1858

Reeve, 1858. Conch. Icon. 10: pl. 10, fig. 43.
(homonym of Mytilus americanus d’Orbigny, 1846)

Mytilopsis leucophaeataMarelli & Gray (1985), WoRMS (2011)

Mytilus tenebrosus Reeve, 1858

Reeve, 1858. Conch. Icon. 10: pl. 10, fig. 46.

Mytilopsis leucophaeataMarelli & Gray (1985)

Mytilopsis leucophaetus Nuttall, 1990

Nuttall, 1990. Palaeontology 33(3): 716.
Breure et al., 2022. Iberus 40(1): 239 [as ‘Mytilus leuophaetus’].
(error for Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Mytilopsis leucophæatusPilsbry (1911)
Congeria cochleatusPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Mytilopsis leucophaeataOlsson (1961), Marelli & Gray (1985), Rosenberg et al. (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), Hoeh et al. (1998), ... Wesselingh et al. (2019), Kondakov et al. (2020), Ituarte (2020), Príe et al. (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Mytilopsis leucophaetus [sic]Nuttall (1990)

 
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