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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Lea (1831): attributed nominal species
publication summary Complete CitationLea, I. 1831. Observations on the Naïades, and descriptions of new species of that and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4 [O. 1]: 63-121, pls. 3-18 (Obs. 1: 73-131). Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesSymphynota bilineata Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 98, pl. 11, fig. 19.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_41876, River Hoogley [about 100 mi above Calcutta] Hindostan. | |
Symphynota inflata Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 99 [109], pl. 14, fig. 28.
(renamed Unio alabamensis Conrad, 1834)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_83909, Claiborne, Ala. | |
Unio acutissimus Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 89 [99], pl. 10, fig. 18.
Type(s): IDIOTYPE MCZ_178887, Alabama River. | |
Unio angustatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 114 [124], pl. 17, fig. 43.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85896, Cooper R., S. Carolina. | |
Unio anodontoides Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 81 [91], pl. 8, fig. 11.
Type(s): TYPE LOST XXX_UNKNOWN, Mississippi river,... Alabama river, … Ohio river. | |
Unio arcaeformis Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 116, pl. 17, fig. 44 [as ‘arcæformis’].
Type(s): IDIOTYPE USNM_84422, Florence, Alabama. | |
Unio asper Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 85 [95], pl. 9, fig. 15.
Type(s): UNKNOWN USNM_84212, Claiborne, Ala. R., Alabama. | |
Unio asperrimus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 71 [81], pl. 5, fig. 3.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84174, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio brevidens Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 75, pl. 6, fig. 6.
Type(s): IDIOTYPE USNM_85349A, Nashville, Tenn. | |
Unio caeruleus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 95 [105], pl. 13, fig. 25 [as ‘cæruleus’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85193, Bengal, India. | |
Unio castaneus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 91 [101], pl. 11, fig. 21.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84824, Claiborne, Alabama. | |
Unio congaraeus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 72 [82], pl. 6, fig. 4 [as ‘congaræus’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85693, Congaree R., Columbia, S.C. | |
Unio cuprinus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 94, pl. 12, fig. 24.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] USNM_86121 (by R.I. Johnson, 1974: 40), Mexico. | |
Unio decisus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 92 [102], pl. 12, fig. 23.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84723, Claiborne, Ala. | |
Unio ebenus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 84 [94], pl. 9, fig. 14.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85792, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio elegans Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 83 [93], pl. 9, fig. 13.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84449, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio fabalis Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 86, pl. 10, fig. 16.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_85270A, Ohio R. | |
Unio formosus Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 111, pl. 16, fig. 41. | |
Unio glans Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 82, pl. 8, fig. 12.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85312, New Harmony, Ind. | |
Unio incurvus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 97, pl. 13, fig. 27.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_85731, Gibralter. | |
Unio lens Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 80, pl. 8, fig. 10. | |
Unio multiplicatus Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 70, pl. 4, fig. 2. | |
Unio multistriatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 91, pl. 12, fig. 22.
Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE USNM_84114, R. Joanes, near Bahia, Brazil. | |
Unio obesus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 96, pl. 13, fig. 26.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85366, Little Ogeechee, Georgia. | |
Unio olivarius Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 108, pl. 16, fig. 38.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_41742, Bengal. | |
Unio oriens Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 73, pl. 6, fig. 5.
(renamed Odatelia radiata Rafinesque, 1832)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86271, Cincinnati, (Ohio R.), Ohio. | |
Unio perplexus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 112, pl. 17, fig. 42.
(homonym of Unio perplexus Say, 1829)
Type(s): SYNTYPE USNM_84324, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio pileus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 119, pl. 18, fig. 47.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_84602A, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio pustulatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 79 [89], pl. 7, fig. 9.
Type(s): SYNTYPE USNM_84200, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio pustulosus Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 76 [86], pl. 7, fig. 7.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_43058, Ohio. | |
Unio pyramidatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 109 [119], pl. 16, fig. 39.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ANSP_41726, Ohio River. | |
Unio soleniformis Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 87, pl. 10, fig. 17. | |
Unio stapes Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 77, pl. 7, fig. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_84218, Alabama R., Ala. | |
Unio subovatus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 118 [128], pl. 18, fig. 46.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84509, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio subrotundus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 117 [127], pl. 18, fig. 45.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85832, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
Unio trapezoides Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 69 [79], pl. 3, fig. 1.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_84103, Lake St. Joseph, Mis. | |
Unio trigonus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 110 [120], pl. 16, fig. 40.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84629, Louisville, KY. | |
Unio varicosus Lea, 1831
  Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 90 [100], pl. 11, fig. 20.
(homonym of Unio varicosa Lamarck, 1819)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84320, Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
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