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genus Protelliptio Russell, 1934: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Protelliptio Russell, 1934

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Russell, 1934. Canad. Field Nat. 48(1): 77.
Type species: Unio biornatus Russell, 1932 (orig. desig.) = Protelliptio biornatus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Elliptio (Protelliptio) — Russell (1934)
Unio — Henderson (1935)
Protelliptio — Yen (1951), Modell (1957)
Protelliptio (s.s.) — Haas (1969)