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

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species Lamellidens savadiensis (Nevill, 1877): synonymy
     7 specimens + 35 Genbank vouchers

Unio marginalis var. savadiensis Nevill, 1877
Nevill, 1877. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 46: 37.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio marginalis Lamarck, 1819)

Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Lamellidens (corrianus-group) savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)

Unio marginalis var. subflabellata Tapparone Canefri, 1889
Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 346.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio marginalis Lamarck, 1819)

Lamellidens marginalisPrashad (1922)
Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022)

Lamellidens marginalis var. sawaddyensis Preston, 1912
Preston, 1912. Rec. Ind. Mus. 7: 305.
Preston, 1915. Fauna Brit. India: 185, text fig. 20.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio marginalis Lamarck, 1819)

Lamellidens (s.s.) marginalis var. sawaddyensisPreston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Lamellidens (s.s.) marginalis sawaddyensisPreston (1915)
Lamellidens generosusPrashad (1922)
Lamellidens testudinariusHaas (1969)
Lamellidens (corrianus-group) savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022)

Lamellidens indawgyiensis Prashad, 1930
Prashad, 1930. Rec. Ind. Mus. 32: 253, fig. 4; pl. 8, figs. 9-10.

Lamellidens testudinariusHaas (1969)
Lamellidens indawgyiensisSubba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Bolotov et al. (2017)
Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2017)
Lamellidens (corrianus-group) savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022)

Lamellidens generosus Whelan et al., 2011
‘Gould’ of Authors.
Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506.
Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013. J. Moll. Studies 79: 251.
Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): 310.
Araujo et al., 2017. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 179(2): 280.
Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 207.
Pfeiffer et al., 2018. J. Moll. Studies 84(4): [3].
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 117.
Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio generosus Gould, 1847)

Unio marginalis var. cylindrica Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Hanley & Theobald’ Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 346.
(misidentified reference to Unio marginalis var. cylindrica Hanley & Theobald, 1872)

Lamellidens marginalisPrashad (1922)
Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio marginalis var. tricolor Tapparone Canefri, 1889
‘Hanley & Theobald’ Tapparone Canefri, 1889. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 27: 347.
(misidentified reference to Unio tricolor Küster, 1856)

Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022)

Unio marginalis var. subflabellatta Prashad, 1922
‘Tapparone-Canefri’ Prashad, 1922. Rec. Ind. Mus. 24: 106.
(error for Unio marginalis var. subflabellata Tapparone Canefri, 1889)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lamellidens (s.s.) marginalis var. sawaddyensisPreston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Lamellidens (s.s.) marginalis sawaddyensisPreston (1915)
Lamellidens marginalisPrashad (1922)
Lamellidens generosusPrashad (1922)
Lamellidens testudinariusHaas (1969)
Lamellidens indawgyiensisSubba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Bolotov et al. (2017)
Lamellidens savadiensisBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Lamellidens (corrianus-group) savadiensisBolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)

 
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