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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae

genus Plesielliptio Russell, 1934: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)

Synonymy

Plesielliptio Russell, 1934

Russell, 1934. Canad. Field Nat. 48(1): 77.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Type species: Unio priscus Meek & Hayden, 1856 (orig. desig.) = Plesielliptio priscus

Jilinoconcha Ma, 1989

Ma, 1989. unknown publication: 259.
Type species: Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) songhuaensis Gu, 1976 = Plesielliptio songhuaensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Plesielliptio, since 1900.

Elliptio (Plesielliptio) — Russell (1934)
Unio — Henderson (1935)
Lexingtonia — Modell (1957)
Plesielliptio — Modell (1957), Russell (1976), Hartmann (1998), Good (1998)
Ligumia — Modell (1957)
Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) — Haas (1969)
Jilinoconcha — Fang et al. (2009)

 
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