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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 Popenaias metallica (Say, 1831): nominal species
     8 specimens available.

Unio metallicus Say, 1831
Say, 1831, New Harm. Dissem. 1(29): [no pagination].
Say, 1858, [in] Binney, Compl. Writings T. Say: 133.

Unio metallicusSay (1831), Ferussac (1835), Conrad (1853)
Margarita (Unio) cuprinusLea (1836), Lea (1838)
Unio cuprinusHanley (1843)
Margaron (Unio) cuprinusLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinusFischer & Crosse (1894)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicusSimpson (1900)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus var. persulcatusMartens (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicaSimpson (1914)
Elliptio (Popenaias) metallicusFrierson (1927)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) metallicaHaas (1969)
Popenaias metallicaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Inoue et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)

Unio cuprinus Lea, 1831
Lea, 1831, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 94, pl. 12, fig. 24.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86121, Mexico.

Unio cuprinusLea (1831), Hanley (1843), Sowerby (1868), B.H. Wright (1888)
Unio metallicusFerussac (1835), Conrad (1853)
Margarita (Unio) cuprinusLea (1836), Lea (1838)
Margaron (Unio) cuprinusLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Unio (Naidea) cuprinusAdams & Adams (1857)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinusFischer & Crosse (1894), Martens (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicusSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicaSimpson (1914)
Elliptio (Popenaias) metallicusFrierson (1927)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) metallicaHaas (1969)

Unio aereus Reeve, 1865
Reeve, 1865, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 30, sp. 160.

Unio aereusReeve (1865), Paetel (1890)
Margaron (Unio) cuprinusLea (1870)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicusSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicaSimpson (1914)
Elliptio (Popenaias) metallicusFrierson (1927)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) metallicaHaas (1969)

Unio cuprinus Sowerby, 1868
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 66, sp. 336.
(reference to Unio cuprinus Lea, 1831)

Unio cuprinusSowerby (1868)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinusFischer & Crosse (1894)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus var. nephriticaMartens (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicusSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicaSimpson (1914)

Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus subventralis Martens, 1900
Martens, 1900, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 506, pl. 36, figs. 1-1b.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cuprinus Lea, 1831)
Type(s): TYPE ZMB_108852, Tabasco, Mexico.

Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus subventralisMartens (1900)
Nephronaias calamitarum var. subventralisSimpson (1914)
Elliptio (Nephronaias) subventralisFrierson (1927)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) metallicaHaas (1969)

Unio acreus Haas, 1969
‘Reeve’ Haas, 1969, Das Tierreich 88: 202.
(error for Unio aereus Reeve, 1865)

Unio acreusHaas (1969)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicusSimpson (1900)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinusMartens (1900)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus var. persulcatusMartens (1900)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus var. nephriticaMartens (1900)
Unio (Simonaias) cuprinus subventralisMartens (1900)
Lampsilis (Proptera) metallicaSimpson (1914)
Nephronaias calamitarum var. subventralisSimpson (1914)
Elliptio (Popenaias) metallicusFrierson (1927)
Elliptio (Nephronaias) subventralisFrierson (1927)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) metallicaHaas (1969)
Unio acreusHaas (1969)
Popenaias metallicaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Inoue et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)

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