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

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species Leaunio ortmanni (Walker, 1925): synonymy
     1 specimen

Micromya ortmanni Walker, 1925
Walker, 1925. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (163): 1, pl. 1, figs. 1-6.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MCZ_167705, Green River, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

Lampsilis (Ligumia) ortmanniFrierson (1927)
Lemiox ortmanniHaas (1969)
Villosa ortmanniStansbery (1970), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), ... Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017)
Leaunio ortmanniWatters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (Ligumia) ortmanniFrierson (1927)
Lemiox ortmanniHaas (1969)
Villosa ortmanniStansbery (1970), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), ... Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017)
Leaunio ortmanniWatters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

 
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