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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Epioblasma species Epioblasma capsaeformis (Lea, 1834): synonymy 3 specimens + 4 Genbank vouchers Unio capsaeformis Lea, 1834
 Lea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 31, pl. 2, fig. 4 [as ‘capsæformis’]. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MCZ_178570, Cumberland River, Tennessee.
Truncilla (Pilea) capsaeformis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Truncilla capsaeformis — Ortmann (1912) Truncilla capsæformis [sic] — Ortmann (1918) Dysnomia (Pilea) capsaeformis — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925) Dysnomia (Capsaeformis) capsaeformis — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Epioblasma (sec. Capsaeformis) capsaeforme — Thiele (1934) Dysnomia capsaeformis — Burch (1975) Plagiola (Torulosa) capsaeformis — R.I. Johnson (1978) Plagiola capsaeformis — R.I. Johnson (1980) Epioblasma capsaeformis — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023) | |
Truncilla florentina Ortmann, 1912 ‘Lea’ Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 359. (misidentified reference to Unio florentinus Lea, 1857)
Truncilla capsæformis [sic] — Ortmann (1918) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Truncilla (Pilea) capsaeformis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Truncilla capsaeformis — Ortmann (1912) Truncilla capsæformis [sic] — Ortmann (1918) Dysnomia (Pilea) capsaeformis — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925) Dysnomia (Capsaeformis) capsaeformis — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Epioblasma (sec. Capsaeformis) capsaeforme — Thiele (1934) Dysnomia capsaeformis — Burch (1975) Plagiola (Torulosa) capsaeformis — R.I. Johnson (1978) Plagiola capsaeformis — R.I. Johnson (1980) Epioblasma capsaeformis — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
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