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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Epioblasma

species Epioblasma cincinnatiensis (Lea, 1840): synonymy
     2 specimens

Unio cincinnatiensis Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 285.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 194, pl. 8, fig. 4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84199, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Truncilla (Pilea) perplexa var. cincinnatiensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla perplexa cincinnatiensisOrtmann (1909)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa-cincinnatiensisFrierson (1927)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa cincinnatiensisHaas (1969)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) torulosaR.I. Johnson (1978)
Epioblasma torulosaParmalee & Bogan (1998)
Epioblasma cincinnatiensisWilliams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Epioblasma phillipsiiWatters et al. (2009)

Unio cincinnatensis Adams & Adams, 1857
‘Lea’ Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 497.
(error for Unio cincinnatiensis Lea, 1840)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Truncilla (Pilea) perplexa var. cincinnatiensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla perplexa cincinnatiensisOrtmann (1909)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa-cincinnatiensisFrierson (1927)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa cincinnatiensisHaas (1969)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) torulosaR.I. Johnson (1978)
Epioblasma torulosaParmalee & Bogan (1998)
Epioblasma cincinnatiensisWilliams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Epioblasma phillipsiiWatters et al. (2009)

 
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