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

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species Psoronaias semigranosa (von dem Busch in Philippi, 1843): synonymy
     31 specimens

Unio semigranosus Philippi, 1843
von dem Busch in Philippi, 1843. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 1: 19, pl. 1, figs. 1-3.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE MCZ_152861 (by Cummings et al., 2025: 332), near Tampico, Mexico.

Unio (sec. Elliptio) semigranosusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Psoronaias) semigranosusMartens (1900)
Quadrula semigranosaPilsbry (1910)
Psoronaias semigranosusFrierson (1917), Frierson (1927), Haas (1930), Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Psoronaias semigranosaHaas (1929), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025), Cummings et al. (2025)
Psoronaias semigranosa semigranosaHaas (1969)

Elliptio herrerae Marshall, 1923
Marshall, 1923. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 63(2485): 1, pl. 1, figs. 6-8; pl. 2, figs. 4-5; pl. 3.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) USNM_347183, Estera del Avileno, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Psoronaias herreraeFrierson (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1930), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Elliptio herreraeContreras-Arquieta (2000)
Psoronaias semigranosaCummings et al. (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Elliptio) semigranosusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Psoronaias) semigranosusMartens (1900)
Quadrula semigranosaPilsbry (1910)
Psoronaias semigranosusFrierson (1917), Frierson (1927), Haas (1930), Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Psoronaias herreraeFrierson (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1930), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Psoronaias semigranosaHaas (1929), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025), Cummings et al. (2025)
Psoronaias semigranosa semigranosaHaas (1969)
Elliptio herreraeContreras-Arquieta (2000)

 
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