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

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This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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species Leguminaia wheatleyi (Lea, 1862): specimens
17 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Leguminaia wheatleyi — Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2014), ..., Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Bolotov et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025)
Leguminaia whaetleyi — Çek & ŞerefliŞan (2010)
Leguminaia bourguignati — Çek & ŞerefliŞan (2010)
Leguminaia chantrei — Çek & ŞerefliŞan (2010)
Leguminaia graeteri — Çek & ŞerefliŞan (2010)
Leguminaia cf. wheatleyi — Lopes-Lima et al. (2021)
Gonidea angulata — Jawad (2021)

Range: Syria and Iraq.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Iran
MNHN_MP_4333 Kirmanchah [Kermanshah] (Kourdistan)	MNHN_MP_4341 Kirmanchah [Kermanshah] (Kourdistan)
Iraq
MCZ_294140 Tigris River, Mosul, [Al Mawsil, Iraq]	ANSP_125632 Tigris R., Assyria	ANSP_125633 Tigris River at Mosul, Assyria
MCZ_MP_300_02 R. Tigris, Assyria	MCZ_178755 Tigris River [Iraq]	UMMZ_184023 Tigris River, Assyria
USNM_86332 River Tigris, Syria	MCZ_30181 River Tigris	USNM_86331 R. Tigris, Syria
SMF_4356 A.d. Tigris b. Mosul	MCZ_49953 River Tigris	UMMZ_MP_001 Riv. Tigris, Syria
ANSP_41034 River Tigris, Assyria	UMMZ_112688 Tigris River, Assyria	UMMZ_112689 Tigris River, Assyria
ANSP_41206 River Tigris, Bagdad	MNHN_MP_4348 Euphrate
Syria
SMF_907 Zufl. d. ob. Euphrat b. Biledschik [Birecik] [Turkey]	SMF_4454 Euphrat Zufl. b. Biredschik [Euphrates River, Birecik]	MNHN_MP_4277 Syrie
MNHN_MP_4278 Alep, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4280 Alep	MNHN_MP_4286 Lac de Homs, Syrie
MNHN_MP_4288 Lac de Homs, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4289 Aintab, Lac Homs, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4290 Lac de Homs, Syrie
MNHN_MP_4291 Alep	MNHN_MP_4293 Lac de Homs, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4294 Aintab, Lac Homs, Syrie
MNHN_MP_4295 Lac de Homs, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4296 Aintab, Lac Homs, Syrie	SMF_4455 Euphrat-Zuflüsse bei Biredschik [Birecik] [Türkei Şanlıurfa]
SMF_4456 Euphrat-Zuflüsse bei Biledschik [Birecik] [Türkei Şanlıurfa]	SMF_15174 Aus einem Euphrat-Zufluss [mündet bei Samsat, 55 km NNW von Şanlıurfa)] nordlich von Orfa [Şanlıurfa], Mesopotamien [Türkei Adıyaman]
Turkey
ANSP_125631 Tigris River, near Mardin, Assyria	SMF_283048 Türkei: Orontes [Asi nehri] bei Samandağ, Kiesbett [Hatay]	MCZ_178756 Tigris River, nr. Mardi, Turkey
SMF_283049 Türkei: Orontes [Asi nehri] bei Samandağ, Kiesbett [Hatay]	SMF_283053 Türkei: Orontes [Asi nehri], 9 km E von Antakya [Hatay], an der Straße nach Reyhanli	AMNH_106843 stream into Tigris River, near Mardin, Iraq, Asia
MCZ_MP.246 Tigris River, near Mardin, Assyria	MNHN_MP_4276 near Mardin	MCZ_240335 River Tigris at Mardin, Assyria
SMF_4354 A.d. Kara-su, Zufl. des Sees v. Antiochia, Syrien	USNM_86354 near Mardin, R. Tigris, Syria	UMMZ_112686 Tigris River, near Mardin, Assyria
MCZ_293262 Tigris River near Mardin [Iraq]
Turkey, Syria, Iraq
MNHN_MP_4279 Le Tigre
unknown
ANSP_125629 [no locality available - Asia]

Genbank Vouchers

Turkey

KCMAE_LG007 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Gölbaşı: Orontes Basin (36.496217, 36.480722)

KCMAE_LG011 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Gölbaşı: Orontes Basin (36.496217, 36.480722)

KCMAE_LG015 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Orontes : Orontes Basin (36.221314, 36.387333)

RMBH_biv_177_16 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

KCMAE_LG013 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Gölbaşı: Orontes Basin (36.496217, 36.480722)

KCMAE_LG018 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Orontes : Orontes Basin (36.221314, 36.387333)

RMBH_biv_177_7 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

RMBH_biv_177_9 (COI) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

KCMAE_LG012 (COI) Turkey: Gölbaşı: Orontes Basin (36.496217, 36.480722)

RMBH_biv_177_8 (COI) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

Page updated: 09:49:04 Mon 17 Feb 2025

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