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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Lea (1828): summary
publication summary Complete CitationLea, I. 1828. Description of six new species of the genus Unio, embracing the anatomy of the oviduct of one of them, together with some anatomical observations on the genus. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 3 [O. 1]: 259-273, pls. 3-6 (Obs. 1: 1-15). Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesUnio calceolus Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 265, pl. 3, fig. 1.
(renamed Calceola angulata Swainson, 1840)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86261 (by Clarke, 1981: 17), Ohio. | |
Unio donaciformis Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 267 [9], pl. 4, fig. 3.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84457, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio ellipsis Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 268, pl. 4, fig. 4.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_56614, Ohio River. | |
Unio irroratus Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 269, pl. 5, fig. 5-7.
Type(s): PARATYPE USNM_84299, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio lacrymosus Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 272 [14], pl. 6, fig. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84165, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio lanceolatus Lea, 1828
  Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 266 [8], pl. 3, fig. 2.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85905, Tar R., at Tarborough, N. Carolina. | |
Unio sulcatus Lea, 1829
 Lea, 1828. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 269 [as ‘Unio ellipsis var. a’].
 Lea, 1829. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 3 [O. 1]: 430, pl. 8, fig. 12.
Say, 1830. Amer. Conch. 1: pl. 5, lower figs.
Type(s): SYNTYPES USNM_84803, Ohio. | |
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