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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Rectidentini | Hyriopsis

species Hyriopsis bialata Simpson, 1900: synonymy
     85 specimens + 9 Genbank vouchers

Unio delphinus Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 285.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 218, pl. 17, fig. 35.
(homonym of Unio delphinus Spengler, 1793)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_83910, New Holland.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusSimpson (1900)
Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis bialataPfeiffer et al. (2021)

Unio delphinus Gruner, 1841
Gruner, 1841. Arch. Naturg. 7(1): 276, pl. 11, figs. 1-1c.
(homonym of Unio delphinus Spengler, 1793; renamed Hyriopsis bialatus Simpson, 1900)
Type(s): TYPE USNM_83910, New Holland.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusSimpson (1900), Brandt (1974), Habe (1977)
Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis bialatusPreston (1912)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialataSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2012), Ng et al. (2020), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Hyriopsis delphinusThiele (1934), Modell (1942)

Unio megapterus Morelet, 1864
Morelet, 1864. J. de Conch. 12: 159.
(homonym of Metaptera megaptera Rafinesque, 1820)

Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusSimpson (1900), Brandt (1974)
Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis bialatusPreston (1912)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialataSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), IUCN (2012), Pfeiffer et al. (2021)

Hyriopsis bialatus Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 579.
(new name for Unio delphinus Gruner, 1841; renamed Unio delphinopterus Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905)

Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusSimpson (1900), Brandt (1974), Habe (1977), Soliman et al. (2016)
Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis bialatusPreston (1912), Graf (2007), Sri-aroon et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Bogan & Do (2014), Kongim et al. (2015), Do et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Muanta et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialataSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2012), ... Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Hyriopsis “bialatus”Muanta et al. (2019)
H. bialatusKonopleva et al. (2019)

Unio delphinopterus Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905
Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905. J. de Conch. 53: 456.
(new name for Hyriopsis bialatus Simpson, 1900)

Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialataSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusBrandt (1974)

Hyriopsis gracilis Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 42: 101.

Hyriopsis gracilisHaas (1910), Do et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Zieritz et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) gracilisSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusBrandt (1974)
H. gracilisKonopleva et al. (2019)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialatusSimpson (1900), Brandt (1974), Habe (1977), Soliman et al. (2016)
Unio delphinopterusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis gracilisHaas (1910), Do et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Zieritz et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Hyriopsis bialatusPreston (1912), Graf (2007), Sri-aroon et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Bogan & Do (2014), Kongim et al. (2015), Do et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Muanta et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) bialataSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) gracilisSimpson (1914)
Hyriopsis bialataHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2012), ... Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
Hyriopsis delphinusThiele (1934), Modell (1942)
Hyriopsis “bialatus”Muanta et al. (2019)
H. bialatusKonopleva et al. (2019)
H. gracilisKonopleva et al. (2019)

 
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