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Publication Sowerby (1867): attributed nominal species
publication summary Complete CitationSowerby, G.B. 1867. Monograph of the Genus Unio. Conchologica Iconica, or Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals 16: pls. 55-60. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesUnio angasi Sowerby, 1867
  ‘Lea, MS’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 55, sp. 282.
 ‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 32, sp. 127 [as ‘Anodon angasii’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_70-10-26-41, Strangways River, Arnheim Land, North Australia. | |
Unio chilensis Sowerby, 1867
  ‘Parreyss’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 56, sp. 286; errata.
(reference to Unio chilensis Gray, 1828)
Type(s): UNKNOWN BMNH_74-12-11-11, Chili. | |
Unio delodontus Sowerby, 1867
 ‘Lamarck’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 57, sp. 288.
(misidentified reference to Unio delodonta Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio dolabraeformis Sowerby, 1867
 ‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 59, sp. 298 [as ‘dolabræformis’].
(misidentified reference to Unio dolabraeformis Lea, 1838) | |
Unio gigas Sowerby, 1867
  ‘Swainson’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 56, sp. 287.
(misidentified reference to Unio gigas Swainson, 1824)
Type(s): MANUSCRIPT NAME BMNH_1968861, River Ohio. | |
Unio luteolus Sowerby, 1867
‘Lamarck’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 58, fig. 293a. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio luteola Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio magnificus Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
 Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): pl. 24, fig. 2 [as ‘Unio tenuis’].
 ‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 57, sp. 289.
(misidentified reference to Symphynota magnifica Lea, 1834) | |
Unio mexicanus Sowerby, 1867
  Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 55, sp. 281.
(homonym of Unio mexicanus Philippi, 1847)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) BMNH_79-2-26-249, Mexico. | |
Unio subtrigonus Sowerby, 1867
  Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 58, fig. 292; errata [changed to U. cambojensis Petit’].
(renamed Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891; homonym of Unio subtrigonus Noulet, 1864)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1874-12-11-3, Siam. | |
Unio superbus Sowerby, 1867
 ‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 59, sp. 295.
(reference to Unio superbus Lea, 1843) | |
Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 58, fig. 292 [as ‘Unio subtrigonus’].
Fischer, 1891. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 4: 223.
(new name for Unio subtrigonus Sowerby, 1867)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1874-12-11-3, Siam. | |
Unio (Lampsilis) discus var. connectens Martens, 1900
‘von dem Busch’ Küster, 1861. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 242, pl. 81, fig. 1 [as ‘Unio panacoensis’].
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 55, sp. 281 [as ‘Unio mexicanus’].
Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 510.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio discus Lea, 1838)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ZMB/MOLL.305852 (by Cummings et al., 2025: 177), Rio Panuco, near Tampico. | |
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