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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page documents data for Lea (1864), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Lea, I. 1864. Descriptions of six new species of Unionidæ from Lake Nyassa, Central Africa, &c. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 16: 108-109.

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Attributed Species Names

Spatha modesta Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 109.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 37 [41], pl. 13, fig. 35.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_86779, Mozambique.

Spatha alata Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 109.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 35 [39], pl. 12, fig. 31.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_86776, Lake Nyasa, Af.

Unio nyassaensis Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 108.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 33 [37], pl. 12, fig. 32.
(renamed Unio nyassanus Bourguignat, 1889)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_84057, L. Nyassa, Africa.

Unio kirkii Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 108.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 32 [36], pl. 12, fig. 30.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_84056, L. Nyassa, Central Africa.

Unio aferula Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 109.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 34 [38], pl. 13, fig. 34 [as ‘aferulus’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_84058, L. Nyassa, Africa.

Spatha nyassaensis Lea, 1864
Lea, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 16: 109.
Lea, 1866, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 11]: 36 [40], pl. 13, fig. 33.
(renamed Spathella nyassana Bourguignat, 1889)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_86777, Lake Nyassa, Af.

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