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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Platynaias

species Platynaias decorata (Lea, 1852): synonymy
     3 specimens

Unio decoratus Lea, 1852
Lea, 1852. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 10 [O. 5]: 257, pl. 13, fig. 6.
Lea, 1852. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5: 251. [nomen nudum]
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_83972, Abbeville, S. Carolina.

Symphynota (s.s.) decorataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), Clarke (1985), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) subviridisR.I. Johnson (1970)
Lasmigona subviridisBurch (1975)
Lasmigona decorataTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Bogan (2002), Bogan (2010), ... Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Lasmigona decoratusTurgeon et al. (1998)

Unio charlottensis Lea, 1863
Lea, 1863. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 15: 191.
Lea, 1866. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 8 [12], pl. 2, fig. 5.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85402, near Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina.

Symphynota (s.s.) charlottensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) charlottensisFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) subviridisR.I. Johnson (1970)
Lasmigona subviridisBurch (1975)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorataClarke (1985)

Unio insolidus Lea, 1872
Lea, 1872. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 24: 159.
Lea, 1874. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8 [O. 13]: 40 [44], pl. 13, fig. 37.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_83974, Irwin’s Cr., Mechlenburg Co., N.C.

Symphynota (s.s.) decorataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), Clarke (1985)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) subviridisR.I. Johnson (1970)
Lasmigona subviridisBurch (1975)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Symphynota (s.s.) decorataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Symphynota (s.s.) charlottensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), Clarke (1985), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) charlottensisFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Lasmigona (Platynaias) subviridisR.I. Johnson (1970)
Lasmigona subviridisBurch (1975)
Lasmigona decorataTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Bogan (2002), Bogan (2010), ... Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Lasmigona decoratusTurgeon et al. (1998)

 
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