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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Contradentini | Lens

species Lens inornatus (Lea, 1856): synonymy
     34 specimens + 9 Genbank vouchers

Unio inornatus Lea, 1856
Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 93.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 293 [13], pl. 24, fig. 6.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_85196, Siam.

Nodularia (s.s.) inornataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Physunio (s.s.) inornatusHaas (1919), Haas (1952), Haas (1969)
Physunio inornatusBrandt (1974), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Kongim et al. (2015), Zieritz et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Lens inornatusPfeiffer et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2024)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Nodularia (s.s.) inornataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Physunio (s.s.) inornatusHaas (1919), Haas (1952), Haas (1969)
Physunio inornatusBrandt (1974), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Kongim et al. (2015), Zieritz et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Lens inornatusPfeiffer et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2024)

 
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