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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio species Elliptio angustata (Lea, 1831): synonymy
2 specimens Unio angustatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 114 [124], pl. 17, fig. 43.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85896, Cooper R., S. Carolina.
Unio (sec. Elliptio) angustatus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio angustatus — de Gregorio (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) angustatus — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) lanceolata — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio angustata — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024) | |
Unio augustatus Ferussac, 1835
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Ferussac, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5: 26.
B.H. Wright, 1888. Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [1].
(error for Unio angustatus Lea, 1831) | |
Unio subcylindraceus Lea, 1874
 Lea, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 25: 422.
Lea, 1874. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8 [O. 13]: 58 [62], pl. 20, fig. 57.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_85863, Rocky Creek, near Macon, Georgia.
Unio (sec. Elliptio) angustatus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) emmonsii — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) lanceolata — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio angustata — MolluscaBase (2024) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Unio (sec. Elliptio) angustatus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio angustatus — de Gregorio (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) angustatus — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) emmonsii — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) lanceolata — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Elliptio angustata — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024)
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