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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini | Acuticosta

species Acuticosta ovata (Simpson, 1900): synonymy
     6 specimens + 2 Genbank vouchers

Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 112.
(homonym of Unio vestitus Lea, 1861; renamed Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata Simpson, 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovataHaas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovata Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 801.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 933.
(new name for Unio vestitus Heude, 1883)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovataHaas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Huang et al. (2002), ... Sano et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Liu et al. (2022)
Acuticosta retiariaGraf & Cummings (2021)

Parreysia hunanensis Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 42: 97.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_3595_2, Hunan [Húnán], Hubei [Húběi], Mittelchina [China].

Parreysia hunanensisHaas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovataHaas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), He & Zhuang (2013)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovataSimpson (1914)

Acuticosta trisulcata triangula Tchang et al., 1965
Tchang et al., 1965. Acta Zool. Sinica 17(2): ??.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio trisulcatus Heude, 1883)

Acuticosta trisulcata triangulaProzorova et al. (2005)
Acuticosta triangulaHu (2005)
Acuticosta ovataHe & Zhuang (2013)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) ovataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia hunanensisHaas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta ovataHaas (1914), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Wu et al. (1999), Huang et al. (2002), ... Sano et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Liu et al. (2022)
Acuticosta trisulcata triangulaProzorova et al. (2005)
Acuticosta triangulaHu (2005)
Acuticosta retiariaGraf & Cummings (2021)

 
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