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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini | Lamprotula species Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877): synonymy
23 specimens + 16 Genbank vouchers Unio caveatus Heude, 1877
  Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (3): pl. 24, fig. 53.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3400, Hou Nan, Chine.
Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Wei et al. (1994), Wu et al. (1999), Wu et al. (2000), ... Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026) | |
Unio contritus Heude, 1881
 Heude, 1881. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (7): pl. 56, fig. 103.
Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)
Lamprotula contritus — Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Do et al. (2018) | |
Unio quadrangulosus Heude, 1881
 Heude, 1881. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (7): pl. 56, fig. 104.
Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013)
Lamprotula quadrangulosus — Dang et al. (1980)
Lamprotula quadrangulosa — Bogan (2010), Do et al. (2018) | |
Unio quaorangulosus Liu et al., 1979
‘Heude’ Liu et al., 1979. Econ. Fauna China: 93.
‘Heude’ Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 52.
(error for Unio quadrangulosus Heude, 1881) | |
Lamprotula rochechouartii Zhou et al., 2007
‘Heude’ of Authors.
Zhou et al., 2007. Acta Zool. Sinica 53(6): 1025.
Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013. J. Moll. Studies 79: 251.
(misidentified reference to Unio rochechouartii Heude, 1875) | |
Lamprotula scripta Wang et al., 2018
of Authors.
Wang et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 10(4): 611.
Aunins et al., 2018. mtDNA B 3(2): 1125.
Wang et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 11: 140.
Cha et al., 2018. mtDNA B 3(2): 946 [as ‘Aculamprotula’].
Froufe et al., 2019. Heredity 124: 185.
Fukata & Iigo, 2020. mtDNA B 5(2): 1216.
Chen et al., 2020. mtDNA B 5(3): 2800.
(misidentified reference to Unio scriptus Heude, 1875)
Lamprotula “scripta mitogenome” — Huang et al. (2019)
Lamprotula scripta — Wu et al. (2020)
Lamprotula caveata — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Zieritz et al. (2021) | |
Unio covtritus Liu et al., 1979
Liu et al., 1979. Econ. Fauna China: 93.
(error for Unio contritus Heude, 1881) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Quadrula (Lamprotula) caveata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula leai — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula caveata — Liu et al. (1979), Liu et al. (1980), Wei et al. (1994), Wu et al. (1999), Wu et al. (2000), ... Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lamprotula contritus — Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula quadrangulosus — Dang et al. (1980)
Lamprotula quadrangulosa — Bogan (2010), Do et al. (2018)
Lamprotula “scripta mitogenome” — Huang et al. (2019)
Lamprotula scripta — Wu et al. (2020)
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