MUSSELp

MUSSELpdb

Introduction

Browse

d'basing

Search the MUSSELpdb

Taxonomy

all genera

Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


Species & Genus Richness by
Taxonomy

Geography

Summary

North America

Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

Australasia


Species Richness & Endemism by
Geography

Data last updated
Thu 18 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae

genus Protelliptio Russell, 1934: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Protelliptio Russell, 1934

Russell, 1934. Canad. Field Nat. 48(1): 77.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
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)

 
NSF icon MUSSEL icon
"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."