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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleuronaia

species Pleuronaia gibber (Lea, 1838): synonymy
     1 specimen + 2 Genbank vouchers

Unio gibber Lea, 1838
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 20. [nomen nudum]
Lea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 35, pl. 10, fig. 30.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_84544, Carry [Caney] Fork, Tenn.

Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberSimpson (1900)
Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberumSimpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
de Gregorio (1914)
Elliptio crassidensOrtmann (1924)
Pleurobema gibberumHaas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberumBogan (2010), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberaCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Perkins et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018)
Pleuronaia gibberWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

Unio giber de Gregorio, 1914
‘Lea’ de Gregorio, 1914. Il Nat. Siciliano 2: 57.
(error for Unio gibber Lea, 1838)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberSimpson (1900)
Pleurobema (s.s.) gibberumSimpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
de Gregorio (1914)
Elliptio crassidensOrtmann (1924)
Pleurobema gibberumHaas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberumBogan (2010), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012)
Pleuronaia gibberaCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Perkins et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018)
Pleuronaia gibberWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

 
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