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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!

The nominal species (available and otherwise) in this synonymy are listed by usage rather than strictly by publication date. The primary sorting order is by the most recent year (since 1969) that the species name was treated as valid, and then nominal species are sorted secondarily by publication year.

The taxonomic history of the valid species (since 1900) is listed at the bottom of the page.

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species Megalonaias nickliniana (Lea, 1834): nominal species
     29 specimens available.

Unio nicklinianus Lea, 1834
Lea, 1834, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 28 [140], pl. 1, fig. 1.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) USNM_83898, Canton China? [Central America].

Unio nicklinianusLea (1834), Hanley (1843), Sowerby (1866), B.H. Wright (1888)
Margarita (Unio) nicklinianusLea (1836), Lea (1838)
Margaron (Unio) nicklinianusLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Plectomerus nicklinianusConrad (1853)
Unio (Metaptera) nicklinianusAdams & Adams (1857)
Unio nicklianusKüster (1861)
Unio (Plectomerus) nicklinianusFischer & Crosse (1894)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) nicklinianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Crenodonta) nicklinianusMartens (1900)
Quadrula nicklinianaPilsbry (1910)
Amblema (Megalonaias) nicklinianaFrierson (1927)
Crenodonta nickliniamaHaas (1929)
Megalonaias nickliniana nicklinianaHaas (1969)
Megalonaias nicklinianaContreras-Arquieta (2000), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Megalonaias nicklineanaITIS (2012)
Megalonaias nervosaPfeiffer et al. (2018)

Unio digitatus Morelet, 1851
Morelet, 1851, Test. Nov. 2: 24.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-2035, flumen Usumacinta, Peten, Guatemala.

Unio digitatusMorelet (1851), B.H. Wright (1888)
Unio (Plectomerus) digitatusFischer & Crosse (1894)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) digitataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Crenodonta) digitatusMartens (1900)
Amblema (Megalonaias) nickliniana-digitataFrierson (1927)
Crenodonta digitataHaas (1929)
Amblema digitataGoodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Megalonaias nickliniana digitataHaas (1969)
Megalonaias digitataContreras-Arquieta (2000)
Megalonaias nervosaPfeiffer et al. (2018)

Unio nicklianus Küster, 1861
‘Lea’ Küster, 1861, Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 218.
(error for Unio nicklinianus Lea, 1834)

Unio nicklianusKüster (1861)
Unio (Plectomerus) nicklinianusFischer & Crosse (1894)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) nicklinianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Crenodonta) stolliMartens (1900)
Megalonaias nickliniana nicklinianaHaas (1969)

Unio (Crenodonta) stolli Martens, 1900
Martens, 1900, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 492, pl. 29, fig. 2.
Type(s): TYPE ZMB_39464, Rio de las Salinas, Guatemala.

Unio (Crenodonta) stolliMartens (1900)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) stolliSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Amblema (Megalonaias) nickliniana-digitataFrierson (1927)
Crenodonta stolliHaas (1929)
Megalonaias nickliniana digitataHaas (1969)
Megalonaias nervosaPfeiffer et al. (2018)

Crenodonta nickliniama Haas, 1929
‘Lea’ Haas, 1929, Senckenbergiana 11: 333.
(error for Unio nicklinianus Lea, 1834)

Crenodonta nickliniamaHaas (1929)

Megalonaias nicklineana ITIS, 2012
ITIS, 2012, ITIS: [web].
(error for Unio nicklinianus Lea, 1834)

Megalonaias nicklineanaITIS (2012)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) nicklinianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Crenodonta) nicklinianusMartens (1900)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) digitataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Crenodonta) digitatusMartens (1900)
Unio (Crenodonta) stolliMartens (1900)
Quadrula (sec. Crenodonta) stolliSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula nicklinianaPilsbry (1910)
Amblema (Megalonaias) nicklinianaFrierson (1927)
Amblema (Megalonaias) nickliniana-digitataFrierson (1927)
Crenodonta nickliniamaHaas (1929)
Crenodonta digitataHaas (1929)
Crenodonta stolliHaas (1929)
Amblema digitataGoodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Megalonaias nickliniana nicklinianaHaas (1969)
Megalonaias nickliniana digitataHaas (1969)
Megalonaias nicklinianaContreras-Arquieta (2000), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Megalonaias digitataContreras-Arquieta (2000)
Megalonaias nicklineanaITIS (2012)
Megalonaias nervosaPfeiffer et al. (2018)

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