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

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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Contradentini | Physunio superbus

nominal species Unio superbus Lea, 1843

Lea, 1843, [privately published sheet]: [1].
Lea, 1845, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 9 [O. 4]: 281, pl. 42, fig. 11.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_83934, New Holland.

= Physunio superbus

Taxonomic Opinions

= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Dai et al., 2025
= Physunio superbus — Dai et al., 2025
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Chen et al., 2025
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Wu et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Liu et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Zieritz et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Matos et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Matos et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Wu et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Dai et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus — Zhang et al., 2024
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Konopleva et al., 2023
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Dai et al., 2023
= Physunio superbus — Wu et al., 2023
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Bolotov et al., 2022
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2022
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Pfeiffer et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Graf & Cummings, 2021
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus — Zieritz et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus — Zieritz et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus — Sahidin et al., 2021
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Bolotov et al., 2020
= Physunio superbus — Zieritz et al., 2020
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Huang et al., 2019
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Konopleva et al., 2019
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2019
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Pfeiffer et al., 2019
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Konopleva et al., 2019
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Zieritz et al., 2018
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Do et al., 2018
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Razak et al., 2018
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Bolotov et al., 2017
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Bolotov et al., 2017
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Zieritz et al., 2016
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Bogan & Do, 2014
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — IUCN, 2011
= Physunio superbus Lea, 1843 — Bogan, 2010
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1841) — Graf & Cummings, 2007
- NO OPINION — B.J. Smith, 1992
= Physunio superbus — Marwoto, 1987
= Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843) — Brandt, 1974
= Physunio (s.s.) superbus (Lea, 1843 [sic]) — Haas, 1969
= Physunio (s.s.) superbus (Lea, 1843) — Haas, 1920
= Physunio (s.s.) superbus (Lea, 1841) — Simpson, 1914
= Physunio (s.s.) superbus (Lea, 1841) — Simpson, 1900
= Margaron (Unio) superbus (Lea) — Lea, 1870
= Unio superbus Lea, 1841 — Sowerby, 1867
= Unio (Metaptera) superbus Lea — Adams & Adams, 1857
= Margaron (Unio) superbus (Lea) — Lea, 1852

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