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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 sampsonii (Lea, 1861): synonymy
     2 specimens

Unio sampsonii Lea, 1861
Lea, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 392.
Lea, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 9]: 192, pl. 25, fig. 261.
Type(s): SYNTYPES USNM_84802, Wabash R., New Harmony, Ind.

Truncilla (Pilea) sampsoniiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) perplexusCall (1900)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) sampsoniiFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Dysnomia sampsoniStansbery (1970)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) sampsoniR.I. Johnson (1978)
Plagiola sampsoniiR.I. Johnson (1980)
Epioblasma sampsoniiTurgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Cummings & Mayer (1997), ... ITIS (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Epioblasma sampsoniHaag (2012)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Truncilla (Pilea) sampsoniiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) perplexusCall (1900)
Dysnomia (Torulosa) sampsoniiFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Dysnomia sampsoniStansbery (1970)
Dysnomia torulosa torulosaBurch (1975)
Plagiola (Torulosa) sampsoniR.I. Johnson (1978)
Plagiola sampsoniiR.I. Johnson (1980)
Epioblasma sampsoniiTurgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), Bogan (1993), Cummings & Mayer (1997), ... ITIS (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Epioblasma sampsoniHaag (2012)

 
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