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

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species Lamellidens friersoni (Simpson, 1914): synonymy
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Physunio friersoni Simpson, 1914
‘Benson, in Hanley’ Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 72, sp. 368 [as ‘Unio velaris’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1068.
(new name for Unio velaris Sowerby, 1868)

Physunio (Lens) friersoniSimpson (1914)
Physunio (Velunio) friersoniHaas (1924)
Physunio (Lens) velarisPrashad (1932)
Physunio friersoniGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Konopleva et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Lamellidens (marginalis-group) friersoniBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)
Lamellidens friersoniBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio velaris Sowerby, 1868
‘Benson, in Hanley’ Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 72, sp. 368.
(misidentified reference to Unio velaris Hanley, 1856)

Physunio (sec. Lens) velarisSimpson (1900), Preston (1915)
Physunio (Lens) friersoniSimpson (1914)
Physunio (sec. Velunio) velarisHaas (1920), Thiele (1934)
Physunio (Velunio) friersoniHaas (1924)
Physunio (Lens) velarisPrashad (1932)
Physunio (Velunio) velarisHaas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Physunio velarisIUCN (2010)
Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Lamellidens (marginalis-group) friersoniBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Physunio (sec. Lens) velarisSimpson (1900), Preston (1915)
Physunio (Lens) friersoniSimpson (1914)
Physunio (sec. Velunio) velarisHaas (1920), Thiele (1934)
Physunio (Velunio) friersoniHaas (1924)
Physunio (Lens) velarisPrashad (1932)
Physunio (Velunio) velarisHaas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Physunio friersoniGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Konopleva et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Physunio velarisIUCN (2010)
Pfeiffer et al. (2021)
Lamellidens (marginalis-group) friersoniBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)
Lamellidens friersoniBolotov et al. (2022)

 
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