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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Arotonaias species Arotonaias cyrenoides (Philippi, 1847): synonymy 47 specimens Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 Philippi, 1847. Zeitschr. f. Malakozool. 4(6): 93. Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 79, pl. 5, fig. 1. Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MNHNS_50199, Lake Nicaragua.
Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoides — Simpson (1900) Unio (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Martens (1900) Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Simpson (1914) Arotonaias cyrenoides — Frierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025) Pachynaias cyrenoides — Haas (1929) — Haas (1969) | |
Unio newcombianus Lea, 1856
Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 103.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 312 [32], pl. 30, fig. 27. Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_84419 (by Cummings et al., 2025: 150), Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua.
Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoides — Simpson (1900) Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianus — Martens (1900) Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Simpson (1914) Arotonaias cyrenoides — Frierson (1927), Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025) — Haas (1969) | |
Unio sagrinatus Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 67, sp. 345; errata [changed to ‘U. newcombianus Lea’].
Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoides — Simpson (1900) Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianus — Martens (1900) Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Simpson (1914) Arotonaias cyrenoides — Frierson (1927), Cummings et al. (2025) — Haas (1969) | |
Unio gabbianus Martens, 1900 ‘Lea’ Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: pl. 39, figs. 5-5b. (misidentified reference to Unio gabbianus Lea, 1868)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Simpson (1914) Arotonaias cyrenoides — Frierson (1927) — Haas (1969) | |
Unio newcombii Lea, 1868 Lea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 295, errata. (error for Unio newcombianus Lea, 1856)
Arotonaias cyrenoides — Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoides — Simpson (1900) Unio (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Martens (1900) Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianus — Martens (1900) Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoides — Simpson (1914) Arotonaias cyrenoides — Frierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025) Pachynaias cyrenoides — Haas (1929) — Haas (1969)
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