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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 gubernaculum (Reeve, 1865): synonymy
     2 specimens

Unio gubernaculum Reeve, 1865
Reeve, 1865. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 28, sp. 146.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965203, Hab._?

Truncilla (Pilea) perplexa var. rangianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla torulosa gubernaculumOrtmann (1918)
Dysnomia (Pilea) torulosa gubernaculumOrtmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa-gubernaculumFrierson (1927)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa rangianaHaas (1969)
Dysnomia torulosaStansbery (1970)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) torulosaR.I. Johnson (1978)
Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculumTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), IUCN (2000), ITIS (2012), Jones (2015), Klymus et al. (2020)
Epioblasma torulosaParmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008)
Epioblasma gubernaculumWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Truncilla (Pilea) perplexa var. rangianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Truncilla torulosa gubernaculumOrtmann (1918)
Dysnomia (Pilea) torulosa gubernaculumOrtmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa-gubernaculumFrierson (1927)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) torulosa rangianaHaas (1969)
Dysnomia torulosaStansbery (1970)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) torulosaR.I. Johnson (1978)
Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculumTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), IUCN (2000), ITIS (2012), Jones (2015), Klymus et al. (2020)
Epioblasma torulosaParmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008)
Epioblasma gubernaculumWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

 
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