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

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species Scabies phaselus (Lea, 1856): synonymy
     59 specimens + 26 Genbank vouchers

Unio phaselus Lea, 1856
Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 94.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 297 [17], pl. 26, fig. 11.
(renamed Unio phaseolus de Gregorio, 1914)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_84143, Siam.

Nodularia (s.s.) phaselusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) phaselusHaas (1911)
de Gregorio (1914)
Scabies phaseolus [sic]Haas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969)
Scabies phaselusBrandt (1974), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Scabies phaelus [sic]Smith (2021)

Unio phaseolus de Gregorio, 1914
‘Lea’ de Gregorio, 1914. Il Nat. Siciliano 2: 61.
(new name for Unio phaselus Lea, 1856; homonym of Unio phaseolus Hildreth, 1828)

Radiatula humilis Bolotov et al., 2017
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: [6] as ‘Radiatula aff. humulis sp. 2’.
Ortiz-Sepulveda et al., 2020. MPE 148: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio humilis Lea, 1856)

Scabies phaselusPfeiffer et al. (2018)

Unio phaseolus Haas, 1969
‘Lea’ Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 64.
(error for Unio phaseolus de Gregorio, 1914)

Scabies phaelus Smith, 2021
Smith, 2021. Genome Biol. Evol. 13(3): 4, Table S2.
(error for Unio phaselus Lea, 1856)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) phaselusSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) phaselusHaas (1911)
de Gregorio (1914)
Scabies phaseolus [sic]Haas (1969)
Scabies crispataF.R. Woodward (1969)
Scabies phaselusBrandt (1974), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Scabies phaelus [sic]Smith (2021)

 
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