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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.) teretiusculaSimpson (1900)
Unio teretiusculusPallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula var. lithophagaPallary (1909)
Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula var. lithophagusSimpson (1914)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. pallaryiPallary (1924)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (1936), Daget (1998)
Unio willcocksiIbrahim et al. (1999)

Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847
Philippi, 1847. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 45, pl. 3, fig. 3.

Nodularia (s.s.) teretiusculaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio teretiusculusPallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiusculaPallary (1909)
Nodularia (Coelatura) teretiusculusKobelt (1910)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculusPallary (1924)
Caelatura [sic] teretiusculusThiele (1934), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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) teretiusculaVan Damme (1984)
Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) teretiusculaIbrahim et al. (1999)

Unio cailliaudi Martens, 1866
‘Fer.’ Martens, 1866. Malak. Blatt. 13: 13.
(intro'd as syn of Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847)

Unio teretiusculusPallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nitia teretiusculaDaget (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) jickeliSimpson (1900)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeliPallary (1909)
Nodularia (Cafferia) jickeliiKobelt (1910)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeliSimpson (1914)
Unio (Nitia) fourtauiPallary (1924)
Unio jickeliPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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 fourtauiPallary (1903)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeliPallary (1909)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeliSimpson (1914)
Unio (Nitia) fourtauiPallary (1924)
Unio jickeliPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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. pallaryiPallary (1924)
Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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. minorPallary (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.) teretiusculaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio teretiusculusPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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) jickeliSimpson (1900)
Unio fourtauiPallary (1903)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeliPallary (1909)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeliSimpson (1914)
Unio jickeliPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Schleschiella parallelepipedon parallelepipedon [sic]Modell (1950)
Nitia teretiusculaDaget (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.) teretiusculaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) jickeliSimpson (1900)
Unio teretiusculusPallary (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Unio fourtauiPallary (1903)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiuscula var. lithophagaPallary (1909)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) teretiusculaPallary (1909)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) jickeliPallary (1909)
Nodularia (Coelatura) teretiusculusKobelt (1910)
Nodularia (Cafferia) jickeliiKobelt (1910)
Nodularia (s.s.) teretiuscula var. lithophagusSimpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) jickeliSimpson (1914)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. pallaryiPallary (1924)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculusPallary (1924)
Unio (Nitia) fourtauiPallary (1924)
Unio (Nitia) teretiusculus var. minorPallary (1924)
Unio jickeliPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] teretiusculusThiele (1934), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Nitia teretiusculaHaas (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) teretiusculaVan Damme (1984)
Unio willcocksiIbrahim et al. (1999)
Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) teretiusculaIbrahim et al. (1999)
Diplodon parallelipipedon [sic]Simone (2006)

 
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