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

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species Quadrula nobilis (Conrad, 1854): synonymy
     1 specimen + 10 Genbank vouchers

Unio nobilis Conrad, 1854
Conrad, 1854. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 297, pl. 27, figs. 3. [in part]
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ANSP_43019 (by Johnson & Baker, 1973: 163), Louisiana.

Quadrula (sec. Theliderma) asperSimpson (1900)
Tritogonia nobilisSimpson (1914), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Quadrula nobilisUtterback (1915), Cummings & Mayer (1997), Serb et al. (2003), Cicerello & Schuster (2003), Jones et al. (2005), ... Szumowski et al. (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Marshall et al. (2018), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Keogh et al. (2024)
Quadrula (s.s.) quadrula-nobilisFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (s.s.) quadrula nobilisHaas (1969)
Quadrula quadrulaR.I. Johnson (1980), Haag (2012)

Quadrula quadrula Lydeard et al., 2000
‘Conrad’ of Authors.
Lydeard et al., 2000. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 177: 157. [in part]
Serb et al., 2003. MPE 28: 10. [in part]
Reis et al., 2013. Graellsia 69(1): 22. [in part]
Amaro et al., 2017. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 179(4): Table S1. [in part]
Gasparini et al., 2020. Environmental DNA 2(3): Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Obliquaria (Quadrula) quadrula Rafinesque, 1820)

Quadrula nobilisCampbell et al. (2005)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (sec. Theliderma) asperSimpson (1900)
Tritogonia nobilisSimpson (1914), Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Quadrula nobilisUtterback (1915), Cummings & Mayer (1997), Serb et al. (2003), Cicerello & Schuster (2003), Jones et al. (2005), ... Szumowski et al. (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Marshall et al. (2018), Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Keogh et al. (2024)
Quadrula (s.s.) quadrula-nobilisFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (s.s.) quadrula nobilisHaas (1969)
Quadrula quadrulaR.I. Johnson (1980), Haag (2012)

 
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