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

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Bivalvia | ... | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae | Lamproscapha

species Lamproscapha ensiformis (Spix in Wagner, 1827): synonymy
     117 specimens

Anodon ensiformis Wagner, 1827
Spix in Wagner, 1827. Test. Fluv. Brasil.: 31, pl. 24, figs. 1-2.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ZSM_MOLL_20041250 (by Fechter, 1983: 238), Rivers of Brazil.

Glabaris (sec. Virgula) ensiformisSimpson (1900)
Anodontites ensiformisF. Baker (1913), Bonetto (1962), Lasso et al. (2009)
Anodontites (sec. Virgula) ensiformisSimpson (1914)
Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformisOrtmann (1921), Haas (1931), Haas (1932), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Quintana (1982), Ramírez et al. (2003), Rumi et al. (2008), Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018)
Anodontites (sec. Lamproscapha) ensiformisThiele (1934)
Lamproscapha ensiformisMorretes (1949), Simone (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Torres et al. (2024)
Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformes [sic]Martinez et al. (2004)

Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformis platensis Bonetto & Tassara, 1987
Bonetto & Tassara, 1987. Rev. Mus. Argentino Zoológicas 14(11): 167, fig. 2.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Anodon ensiformis Wagner, 1827)

Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformes Martinez et al., 2004
‘Spix’ Martinez et al., 2004. Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat. 159-160: 293.
(error for Anodon ensiformis Wagner, 1827)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Glabaris (sec. Virgula) ensiformisSimpson (1900)
Anodontites ensiformisF. Baker (1913), Bonetto (1962), Lasso et al. (2009)
Anodontites (sec. Virgula) ensiformisSimpson (1914)
Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformisOrtmann (1921), Haas (1931), Haas (1932), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Quintana (1982), Ramírez et al. (2003), Rumi et al. (2008), Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018)
Anodontites (sec. Lamproscapha) ensiformisThiele (1934)
Lamproscapha ensiformisMorretes (1949), Simone (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Torres et al. (2024)
Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformes [sic]Martinez et al. (2004)

 
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