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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Oxynaiina

genus Protunio Haas, 1912: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Protunio Haas, 1912
Haas, 1912. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): pl. 32.
Haas, 1913. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 37.
Haas, 1919. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 51): 257.
Type species: Unio messageri Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901 (orig. desig.) = Protunio messageri

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

UnioDautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Quadrula (Lamprotula)Simpson (1914)
ProtunioHaas (1919), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Dang et al. (1980), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018), Bogan & Do (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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