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

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Bivalvia | ... | Ambleminae | Quadrulini | Quadrulina | Theliderma

species Theliderma sparsa (Lea, 1841): synonymy
     1 specimen + 2 Genbank vouchers

Unio sparsus Lea, 1841
Lea, 1841. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 82.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 242 [80], pl. 25, fig. 58.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84222, Holston R., Tenn.

Quadrula (s.s.) sparsaSimpson (1900)
Quadrula sparsaOrtmann (1912), Stansbery (1970), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), ... ITIS (2012), Szumowski et al. (2012), Haag (2012), Jones (2015), Klymus et al. (2020)
Quadrula (s.s.) tuberosa var. sparsaSimpson (1914)
Quadrula intermediaOrtmann (1918)
Quadrula (Orthonymus) metanevra-tuberosaFrierson (1927)
Orthonymus metanevrus tuberosusHaas (1969)
Quadrula tuberosaR.I. Johnson (1980)
Theliderma sparsaIUCN (1996), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (s.s.) sparsaSimpson (1900)
Quadrula sparsaOrtmann (1912), Stansbery (1970), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), ... ITIS (2012), Szumowski et al. (2012), Haag (2012), Jones (2015), Klymus et al. (2020)
Quadrula (s.s.) tuberosa var. sparsaSimpson (1914)
Quadrula intermediaOrtmann (1918)
Quadrula (Orthonymus) metanevra-tuberosaFrierson (1927)
Orthonymus metanevrus tuberosusHaas (1969)
Quadrula tuberosaR.I. Johnson (1980)
Theliderma sparsaIUCN (1996), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Williams et al. (2017), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)

 
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