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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 acuminata (H. Adams, 1866): synonymy
     72 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

Unio acuminatus H. Adams, 1866
H. Adams, 1866. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 376.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1867-1-9-4, Albert Nyanza.

Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) acuminataSimpson (1900)
Nodularia (Cafferia) acuminataKobelt (1910)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) acuminatusSimpson (1914)
Parreysia acuminataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Bloomer (1932)
Nitia acuminataHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Caelatura [sic] acuminatusMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura acuminataScholz & Glaubrecht (2004)

Unio caillaudi H. Adams, 1866
‘Férussac’ of Authors.
H. Adams, 1866. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 376.
E.A. Smith, 1888. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1888: 56.
(misidentified reference to Unio cailliaudi Martens, 1866)

Parreysia acuminataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) acuminataSimpson (1900)
Nodularia (Cafferia) acuminataKobelt (1910)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) acuminatusSimpson (1914)
Parreysia acuminataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Bloomer (1932)
Nitia acuminataHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Caelatura [sic] acuminatusMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura acuminataScholz & Glaubrecht (2004)

 
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