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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Nitia species Nitia teretiuscula (Philippi, 1847): synonymy 142 specimens + 4 Genbank vouchers Unio lithophagus Philippi, 1847 ‘Parreyss’ Philippi, 1847. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 45.
Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula — Simpson (1900) Unio teretiusculus — Pallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula var. lithophaga — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula var. lithophagus — Simpson (1914) Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. pallaryi — Pallary (1924) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Daget (1998) Unio willcocksi — Ibrahim et al. (1999) | |
Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847
Philippi, 1847. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 45, pl. 3, fig. 3.
Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio teretiusculus — Pallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (Coelatura) teretiusculus — Kobelt (1910) Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus — Pallary (1924) Caelatura [sic] teretiusculus — Thiele (1934), Mandahl-Barth (1988) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024) Coelatura (Nitia) teretiuscula — Van Damme (1984) Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) teretiuscula — Ibrahim et al. (1999) | |
Unio cailliaudi Martens, 1866 ‘Fer.’ Martens, 1866. Malak. Blatt. 13: 13. (intro'd as syn of Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847)
Unio teretiusculus — Pallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nitia teretiuscula — Daget (1998) | |
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) jickeli Simpson, 1900 ‘Phil.’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 276, pl. 11, figs. 3-3b [as ‘U. teretiusculus’]. [in part] Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 826. Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 579 [as ‘Unio jickeli’].
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1900) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeli — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (Cafferia) jickelii — Kobelt (1910) Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1914) Unio (Nitia) fourtaui — Pallary (1924) Unio jickeli — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998) Schleschiella parallelepipedon parallelepipedon [sic] — Modell (1950) Diplodon parallelipipedon [sic] — Simone (2006) | |
Unio fourtaui Pallary, 1903 ‘Phil.’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 276, pl. 11, figs. 3-3b [as ‘U. teretiusculus’]. [in part] Pallary, 1903. Bull. Inst. Égypt. 3 (4th series): 95. Pallary, 1924. Mém. Inst. Égypte 7 (n.s.): 49.
Unio fourtaui — Pallary (1903) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeli — Pallary (1909) Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1914) Unio (Nitia) fourtaui — Pallary (1924) Unio jickeli — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998) Schleschiella parallelepipedon parallelepipedon [sic] — Modell (1950) Diplodon parallelipipedon [sic] — Simone (2006) | |
Nodularia teretiuscula var. pallaryi Longstaff, 1914
Longstaff, 1914. J. Linn. Soc., Zool. 32: 256, pl. 18, figs. 12-14. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847) Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1923-6-8-1219, near Mogran, S. Sudan.
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. pallaryi — Pallary (1924) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011) | |
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. minor Pallary, 1924 Pallary, 1924. Mém. Inst. Égypte 7 (n.s.): 49. (homonym of Unio margaritifer var. minor Rossmässler, 1835)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. minor — Pallary (1924) | |
Margarita (Unio) cailliaudii Lea, 1836 ‘Fer.’ Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: ??. [nomen nudum] ‘Fer.’ Lea, 1838. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 24. [nomen nudum] ‘Fer.’ Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 36. [nomen nudum] ‘Fer.’ Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 58.
Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio teretiusculus — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998) | |
Unio teretiusculus Jickeli, 1874
‘Phil.’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 276, pl. 11, figs. 3-3b. [in part] (reference to Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847)
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1900) Unio fourtaui — Pallary (1903) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeli — Pallary (1909) Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1914) Unio jickeli — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Schleschiella parallelepipedon parallelepipedon [sic] — Modell (1950) Nitia teretiuscula — Daget (1998) Diplodon parallelipipedon [sic] — Simone (2006) | |
Unio teresciusculus Van Damme & Pickford, 2010 ‘Philippi’ Van Damme & Pickford, 2010. Geo-Pal Uganda 2: 48. (error for Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1900) Unio teretiusculus — Pallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Unio fourtaui — Pallary (1903) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula var. lithophaga — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeli — Pallary (1909) Nodularia (Coelatura) teretiusculus — Kobelt (1910) Nodularia (Cafferia) jickelii — Kobelt (1910) Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula var. lithophagus — Simpson (1914) Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeli — Simpson (1914) Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. pallaryi — Pallary (1924) Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus — Pallary (1924) Unio (Nitia) fourtaui — Pallary (1924) Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. minor — Pallary (1924) Unio jickeli — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Caelatura [sic] teretiusculus — Thiele (1934), Mandahl-Barth (1988) Nitia teretiuscula — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024) Schleschiella parallelepipedon parallelepipedon [sic] — Modell (1950) Coelatura (Nitia) teretiuscula — Van Damme (1984) Unio willcocksi — Ibrahim et al. (1999) Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) teretiuscula — Ibrahim et al. (1999) Diplodon parallelipipedon [sic] — Simone (2006)
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