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

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Bivalvia | ... | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae | Anodontites

species Anodontites lucida (d’Orbigny, 1835): synonymy
     46 specimens

Unio (Anodontes) lucida d’Orbigny, 1835
d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 40.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5: 620, pl. 79, figs. 4-6 [as ‘Anodonta lucida’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1854-12-4-834, Banda orientali, republica Uruguayensi orientali.

Glabaris (s.s.) lucidusSimpson (1900)
Anodonta lucidaCorsi (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.) lucidusSimpson (1914), Haas (1931), Figueiras (1965), Haas (1969), Mansur (1970), Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018)
Anodontites (s.s.) obtusus lucidusBonetto & Mansur (1970), Rumi et al. (2008)
Anodontites obtususSimone (2006)
Anodontites lucidusMansur & Pereira (2006), Mansur et al. (2020)
Anodontites lucidaITIS (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021), Torres et al. (2024)

Anodontites clessini Ortmann, 1921
‘Fischer’ Ortmann, 1921. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8: 594.
(misidentified reference to Mycetopus clessini Fischer, 1890)

Anodontites lucidusMansur & Pereira (2006)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Glabaris (s.s.) lucidusSimpson (1900)
Anodonta lucidaCorsi (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.) lucidusSimpson (1914), Haas (1931), Figueiras (1965), Haas (1969), Mansur (1970), Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018)
Anodontites (s.s.) obtusus lucidusBonetto & Mansur (1970), Rumi et al. (2008)
Anodontites obtususSimone (2006)
Anodontites lucidusMansur & Pereira (2006), Mansur et al. (2020)
Anodontites lucidaITIS (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021), Torres et al. (2024)

 
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