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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio

species Elliptio dariensis (Lea, 1842): synonymy
     1 specimen

Unio dariensis Lea, 1842
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 246 [84], pl. 26, fig. 61.
Lea, 1843. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 225.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85691, Darien, Ga.

Unio (sec. Elliptio) dariensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) dariensisFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975)
Elliptio dariensisKat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024)

Unio buckleyi Simpson, 1900
‘Lea’ Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 713.
(misidentified reference to Unio buckleyi Lea, 1843)

Elliptio (s.s.) buddianusFrierson (1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Elliptio) dariensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) dariensisFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975)
Elliptio (s.s.) buddianusFrierson (1927)
Elliptio dariensisKat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024)

 
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