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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Plethobasus

species Plethobasus cooperianus (Lea, 1834): synonymy
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Unio cooperianus Lea, 1834
Lea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 61 [173], pl. 8, fig. 21.
Type(s): TYPE LOST XXX_UNKNOWN, [locality unknown].

Quadrula (sec. Theliderma) cooperianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) cooperianusCall (1900)
Quadrula cooperianaOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1909)
Pleurobema cooperianaOrtmann (1910)
Plethobasus cooperianusOrtmann (1912), Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), ... Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Quadrula (Striata) striataFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (Luteacarnea) striataHaas (1969)
Plethobasus striatusMorrison (1969)

Unio striatus Reeve, 1864
‘Rafinesque’ Reeve, 1864. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 8, sp. 30 [changed to ‘cooperianus’ in the errata].
(misidentified reference to Obovaria striata Rafinesque, 1820; error for Unio cooperianus Lea, 1834)

Quadrula (sec. Theliderma) cooperianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Striata) striataFrierson (1927)
Plethobasus cooperianusParmalee & Bogan (1998), Watters et al. (2009)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (sec. Theliderma) cooperianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) cooperianusCall (1900)
Quadrula cooperianaOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1909)
Pleurobema cooperianaOrtmann (1910)
Plethobasus cooperianusOrtmann (1912), Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), ... Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Quadrula (Striata) striataFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (Luteacarnea) striataHaas (1969)
Plethobasus striatusMorrison (1969)

 
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