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

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species Lamprotula cornuumlunae (Heude, 1883): synonymy
     15 specimens + 6 Genbank vouchers

Unio montanus Heude, 1875
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 4, fig. 11.
(renamed Unio monticola Heude, 1884; homonym of Unio montanus Philippi, 1869)
Type(s): SYNTYPE SMF_5192, China.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuum-lunaeLiu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio leai var. cinnamomeus Gredler, 1881
Gredler, 1881. Jb. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 8: 122, pl. 6, fig. 6.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio leaii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lumæ [sic] var. cinnamomeusSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunae var. cinnamomeaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio abortivus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 63, fig. 124.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio cornuumlunae Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 105 [as ’cornuum lunae’].
Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE USNM_472362, Kouang té tcheou, China.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuum-lunaeLiu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Prozorova et al. (2005), Zhou et al. (2007), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeWu et al. (2000), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lamprotula carnumlunae [sic]Hu (2005)

Unio verruculosus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 111.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuum-lunaeLiu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeHe & Zhuang (2013)

Unio monticola Heude, 1884
Heude, 1884. J. de Conch. 32: 19.
(new name for Unio montanus Heude, 1875)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeHe & Zhuang (2013)

Quadrula cornuum lumae Simpson, 1900
‘Gredler’ Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 802 [as ‘Quadrula cornumm lumæ var. cinnamomeus’].
(error for Unio cornuumlunae Heude, 1883)

Lamprotula carnumlunae Hu, 2005
Hu, 2005. Chinese J. Zool. 40: [3], table 1.
(error for Unio cornuumlunae Heude, 1883)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lunæSimpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum lumæ [sic] var. cinnamomeusSimpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) leaiDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunaeSimpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) cornuum-lunae var. cinnamomeaSimpson (1914)
Lamprotula leaiHaas (1969)
Lamprotula cornuum-lunaeLiu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Prozorova et al. (2005), Zhou et al. (2007), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula cornuumlunaeWu et al. (2000), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), ... Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Lamprotula carnumlunae [sic]Hu (2005)

 
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