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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini genus Lamprotula Simpson, 1900: synonymy 17 Recent valid species (26 total species) Lamprotula Simpson, 1900 Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 796. Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 913. (intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820) Type species: Chama plumbea Dillwyn, 1817 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula plumbea Parunio Ping, 1931 Ping, 1931. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 10: 236. Type species: Parunio crassus Ping, 1931 (original designation) = Lamprotula crassa Lamprotura Uwadi, 1934 Uwadi, 1934. Jour. Geol. Soc. Tokyo 41: explanation to pl. 7. (error for Lamprotula Simpson, 1900) Richthofenia Modell, 1964 Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 110. (homonym of Kayser, 1883 (Brachiopoda); intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; renamed Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976) Type species: Unio leaii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula leaii Cuneolamprotula Gu, 1976 Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 319. (intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900) Type species: Unio bazini Heude, 1877 = Lamprotula bazini Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976 Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 324. (intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; new name for Richthofenia Modell, 1964) Richtofenia Vokes, 1980 ‘Modell’ of Authors. Vokes, 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: 78. Vaught, 1989. Class. Livinh Moll.: 121. Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1056. (error for Richthofenia Modell, 1964) Iolamprotula Martinson, 1964 Martinson, 1964. Colloque du Jurrassique 1962: 160. (error for Eolamprotula Gu [Ku], 1962) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (Quadrula) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908) Lamprotula — Haas (1920), Thiele (1934), Ueji (1934), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), ... Zhang et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025) Lamprotula (s.s.) — Haas (1969) Lamprotula (Parunio) — Haas (1969), Yu et al. (2001) Lamprotula (Cuneolamprotula) — Yu et al. (2001), Fang et al. (2009) Pronodularia — Kondo et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018) Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) — Fang et al. (2009) Aculamprotula — He & Zhuang (2013), Araujo et al. (2017) L. — Sheng et al. (2014) Gibbosula — WoRMS (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)
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