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

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species Leoparreysia burmana (Blanford, 1869): synonymy
     40 specimens + 9 Genbank vouchers

Unio burmanus Blanford, 1869
Blanford, 1869. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869: 449.
Type(s): SYNTYPES BMNH_1968628, Ava and Bhamo, India.

Parreysia (s.s.) burmanusSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Preston (1915), Subba Rao (1989), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Parreysia (s.s.) burmanaSimpson (1914), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Parreysia burmanusPrashad (1922)
Parreysia burmanaHaas (1969), Brandt (1974), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010), Ng et al. (2016), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Parreysia cf. burmanaBolotov et al. (2017)
Leoparreysia burmanaBolotov et al. (2017), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Radiatula burmanaHuang et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)

Unio birmanus Hanley & Theobald, 1872
‘Blanford’ of Authors.
Hanley & Theobald, 1872. Conch. Indica (3): 19.
Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 146.
(error for Unio burmanus Blanford, 1869)

Parreysia (s.s.) burmanusSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Preston (1915)
Parreysia (s.s.) burmanaSimpson (1914)
Parreysia burmanaHaas (1969), Brandt (1974)

Parreysia (s.s.) pernodulosa Preston, 1912
Preston, 1912. Rec. Ind. Mus. 7: 300.
Preston, 1915. Fauna Brit. India: 164, text fig. 15.

Parreysia (s.s.) pernodulosaPreston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915)
Parreysia burmanusPrashad (1922)
Parreysia pernodulosaHaas (1969)
Parreysia (s.s.) burmanusSubba Rao (1989), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Parreysia burmanaIUCN (2010)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia (s.s.) burmanusSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Preston (1915), Subba Rao (1989), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Parreysia (s.s.) pernodulosaPreston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915)
Parreysia (s.s.) burmanaSimpson (1914), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Parreysia burmanusPrashad (1922)
Parreysia burmanaHaas (1969), Brandt (1974), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010), Ng et al. (2016), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Parreysia pernodulosaHaas (1969)
Parreysia cf. burmanaBolotov et al. (2017)
Leoparreysia burmanaBolotov et al. (2017), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Radiatula burmanaHuang et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)

 
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