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

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lanceolariini | Lanceolaria

species Lanceolaria grayii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833): synonymy
     132 specimens + 17 Genbank vouchers

Unio grayii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
‘Lea’ Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): 601, pl. 21, fig. 3.

Nodularia (sec. Lanceolaria) grayanaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) grayanusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lanceolaria grayanaHaas (1911), Liu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (2019)
Haas (1969)
Lanceolaria grayiDang et al. (1980), Do et al. (2018)
Lanceolaria grayiiIUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)

Unio grayanus Lea, 1834
Lea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 66 [178], pl. 9, fig. 26.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84162, China.

Nodularia (sec. Lanceolaria) grayanaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) grayanusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lanceolaria grayanaHaas (1911), Haas (1924), Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969), ... Kim et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025)
de Gregorio (1914)
Lanceolaria (s.s.) grayanaThiele (1934)
Lanceolaria grayana grayanaHaas (1969)
Lanceolaria grayiiHe & Zhuang (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Lanceolaria glayana [sic]Wang et al. (2016)
Lanceolaria grayiDo et al. (2018)

Unio (Nodularia) gracillimus Rolle, 1904
Rolle, 1904. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 36: 26, pl. 4, figs. b-c.
Type(s): SYNTYPE SMF_3570, Zw. Hanoi u Hoa Bimo, Tonkin [Road From Hanoi To Hoa-Bimo, China, North Pacific Ocean].

Unio (Nodularia) grayanusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lanceolaria grayanaHaas (1911)
Nodularia (sec. Lanceolaria) grayanaSimpson (1914)
Lanceolaria grayana grayanaHaas (1969)
Lanceolaria grayiiHe & Zhuang (2013)
Lanceolaria grayiDo et al. (2018)

Unio (Nodularia) grayanus Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905. J. de Conch. 53: 202.
Haas, 1910. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 41): 44, pl. 4b-c.
(reference to Unio grayanus Lea, 1834)

Lanceolaria grayiDang et al. (1980)
Lanceolaria grayanaKondo (2008)

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha cuspidata Kira, 1959
‘Kuroda, MS’ Kira, 1959. Illustr. Shells Japan: 172, pl. 63, fig. 18.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio oxyrhynchus Martens, 1861)

Lanceolaria oxyrhynchus cuspidataKira (1954)
Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha cuspidataKira (1959), Take & Kuroda (1959)
Lanceolaria cuspidataKuroda (1963)
Lanceolaria grayanaHabe (1977), Habe (1991), Kondo (2008)
Lanceolaria grayiiHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio grayensis Jay, 1835
Jay, 1835. Cat. Rec. Shells: 17.
(error for Unio grayanus Lea, 1834)

Lanceolaria glayana Wang et al., 2016
Wang et al., 2016. mtDNA 27(2): 846.
(error for Unio grayanus Lea, 1834)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (sec. Lanceolaria) grayanaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) grayanusDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lanceolaria grayanaHaas (1911), Haas (1924), Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969), ... Kim et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025)
de Gregorio (1914), Haas (1969)
Lanceolaria (s.s.) grayanaThiele (1934)
Lanceolaria oxyrhynchus cuspidataKira (1954)
Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha cuspidataKira (1959), Take & Kuroda (1959)
Lanceolaria cuspidataKuroda (1963)
Lanceolaria grayana grayanaHaas (1969)
Lanceolaria grayiDang et al. (1980), Do et al. (2018)
Lanceolaria grayiiIUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lanceolaria glayana [sic]Wang et al. (2016)

 
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