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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio

species Pseudunio homsensis (Lea, 1865): synonymy
     20 specimens

Unio episcopalis Tristram, 1865
Tristram, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1865: 544.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1936-3-10-3, River Orontes.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) episcopalisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Psilunio littoralis homsensisHaas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensisHaas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensisD.G. Smith (2001)

Unio homsensis Lea, 1865
Lea, 1865. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 285.
Lea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 249 [9], pl. 29, fig. 63.
Type(s): SYNTYPE ANSP_125718, Orontes R., Lake Homs, N. Syria.

Unio (sec. Lymnium) homsensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) homsensisGermain (1911)
Psilunio littoralis homsensisHaas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensisHaas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensisFalkner (1994), D.G. Smith (2001), Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021)
Margaritifera homsensisGraf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2016), Vikhrev et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Bashê (2022)

Unio barroisi Drouët, 1893
Drouët, 1893. J. de Conch. 41: 36.
Type(s): PARATYPE SMF_4548, A.d. Nahr el Haroun, Syrien.

Simpson (1914)
Psilunio littoralis homsensisHaas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensisHaas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensisD.G. Smith (2001)

Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 34; ‘Abb.’.
Pallary, 1933. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 149. [nomen nudum]
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 115.
Type(s): SYNTYPES BMNH_1937-12-30-13052-13053, Le Nahr el Kabir a Tell Kalat [Syria].

Margaritana syriacaPallary (1939)
Psilunio littoralis homsensisHaas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensisHaas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensisD.G. Smith (2001)

Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosa Pallary, 1929
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 36.
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 116.
(homonym of Margaritana dernaica var. ponderosa Pallary, 1928; intro'd as intra-sp. of Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0077, L’Oued el Kebir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites).

Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosaPallary (1939)

Margaritana syriaca var. minor Pallary, 1939
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 116.
(homonym of Margaritana minor Lea, 1845; intro'd as intra-sp. of Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929)

Margaritana syriaca var. minorPallary (1939)

Margaritana syriaca var. quadrata Pallary, 1939
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 116.

Margaritana syriaca var. quadrataPallary (1939)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Lymnium) episcopalisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) homsensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) homsensisGermain (1911)
Simpson (1914)
Margaritana syriacaPallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosaPallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. minorPallary (1939)
Margaritana syriaca var. quadrataPallary (1939)
Psilunio littoralis homsensisHaas (1940)
Potomida littoralis homsensisHaas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Pseudunio homsensisFalkner (1994), D.G. Smith (2001), Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021)
Margaritifera homsensisGraf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2016), Vikhrev et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Bashê (2022)

 
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