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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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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae | Etheria

species Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807: nominal species
     593 specimens available.

Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 401, pls. 29; pl. 31, fig. 1.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 1.
(renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21209, Habite..... la mer des grandes Indes?

Etheria ellipticaLamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Blainville (1825), Deshayes (1830), ..., Sano et al. (2020), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021)
Ætheria lamarckiiSowerby (1825)
Aetheria ellipticaWood (1828), Adams & Adams (1857), Sturany (1894), Pallary (1909), Kobelt (1910), Thiele (1934), Dartevelle & Schwetz (1937), Dartevelle (1939), Franc (1949)
Etheria lamarckiiHanley (1843)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) ellipticaBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria ellipticaE.A. Smith (1880), E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Germain (1907), Germain (1918)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)

Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522.
Type(s): UNKNOWN MCZ_72888, Blue Nile, Egypt.

Aetheria cailliaudiFérussac (1824), Adams & Adams (1857), Martens (1866), Pallary (1903), Kobelt (1904)
Ætheria cailliaudiSowerby (1825)
Etheria cailliaudiDeshayes (1830), Jay (1835), Sowerby (1872), Jousseaume (1886)
Etheria caillaudiHanley (1843)
Aetheria caillaudiJickeli (1874), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Caillaudiana) caillaudiBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria caillaudiServain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica var. cailliaudiMartens (1897), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Elderkin et al. (2016)
Etheria elliptica var. cailliaudiYonge (1962), Yonge (1978)

Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825
Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 523, pl. 19.

Aetheria tubiferaSowerby (1825), Westerlund (1890)
Etheria caillaudiHanley (1843)
Aetheria cailliaudiMartens (1866), Pallary (1903)
Aetheria caillaudiJickeli (1874)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) tubiferaBourguignat (1880)
Etheria cailliaudiJousseaume (1886)
Ætheria tubiferaServain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubiferaMartens (1897), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Van Damme (1984), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Elderkin et al. (2016)
Etheria elliptica var. tubiferaYonge (1962), Yonge (1978)

Aetheria elliptica var. typica R. Anthony, 1907
‘Germain’ R. Anthony, 1907, Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Malac. Belgique 41: 372.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria elliptica var. typicaR. Anthony (1907), Pallary (1909)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)
Etheria elliptica var. typicaYonge (1978)

Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 404, pl. 32, figs. 1-2 [as ‘semi-lunata’].
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 3.
(renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MHNG_XXX, Madagascar.

Etheria semilunataLamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Children (1823), Blainville (1825), Sowerby (1839)
Etheria semi-lunataLamarck (1807), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria plumbeaSowerby (1825)
Etheria plumbeaHanley (1843)
Aetheria semilunataAdams & Adams (1857), Fischer (1887), Ancey (1888)
Ætheria semilunataWoodward (1871)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), ..., Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunataBourguignat (1880)
Etheria plombeaJousseaume (1886)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 406, pl. 32, figs. 3-4.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 4.
(renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

Etheria transversaLamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria plumbeaSowerby (1825)
Etheria plumbeaHanley (1843)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversaBourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 403, pl. 30; pl. 31, fig. 2.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 2.
(renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21210, [no locality available - Africa].

Etheria trigonulaLamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria lamarckiiSowerby (1825)
Etheria lamarckiiHanley (1843)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) ellipticaBourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria caillaudi Cuvier, 1817
‘Ferussac’ of Authors.
Cuvier, 1817, Règne Animal 2: 130.
Hanley, 1843, Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 230.
Jickeli, 1874, Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 281.
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 64.
Westerlund, 1890, Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 316.
Servain, 1890, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 320.
(error for Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824)

Etheria caillaudiCuvier (1817)
Etheria ellipticaFischer-Piette & Métivier (1974), Daget (1998)

Etheria semilunata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821
Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821, Genera of Shells 2: 1, pl. 94.
(reference to Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria semilunataSowerby & Sowerby (1821)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) ellipticaBourguignat (1880)

Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522 [as ‘Ætheria’].
(new name for Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807; new name for Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria lamarckiiFérussac (1824), Hanley (1843)
Ætheria lamarckiiSowerby (1825)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) ellipticaBourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)

Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522 [as ‘Ætheria’].
(new name for Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807; new name for Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

Etheria plumbeaFérussac (1824), Jay (1835), Hanley (1843)
Ætheria plumbeaSowerby (1825)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Fischer-Piette & Métivier (1974), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunataBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversaBourguignat (1880)
Etheria plombeaJousseaume (1886)
Aetheria semilunataAncey (1888)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907), Germain (1925)

Aetheria denhami Koenig, 1826
Koenig, 1826, [in] Denham & Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, Appendix: 254.

Aetheria denhamiKoenig (1826)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Etheria carteroni Michelin, 1830
Michelin, 1830, unknown publication: 1.
Michelin, 1831, Mag. Zool. 1: 1, pl. 1, fig. 1.
Type(s): UNKNOWN MNHN_MP_1541, ... Faleme, Senegambia.

Etheria carteroniMichelin (1830)
Etheria plumbeaHanley (1843)
Etheria ellipticaSowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)
Aetheria caillaudiJickeli (1874)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) carteroniBourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubiferaMartens (1897)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)

Etheria cailliaudi Sowerby, 1872
Sowerby, 1872, Conch. Icon. 18: pl. 2. sp. 2, fig. 2a. [in part]
(reference to Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824)

Etheria cailliaudiSowerby (1872)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubiferaMartens (1897)

Etheria semilunaris Sowerby, 1872
‘Lamarck’ Sowerby, 1872, Conch. Icon. 18: pl. 1, sp. 1.
(error for Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria semilunarisSowerby (1872)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria chambardi Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 56, 69.

Aetheria chambardiBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Chambardiana) chambardiBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria chambardiServain (1890)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria elliptica E.A. Smith, 1880
‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352.
(reference to Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria ellipticaE.A. Smith (1880)
Aetheria tanganikanaBourguignat (1889)

Aetheria letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 55, 70.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0193, Le Nil, dans les conaux du Fayoum, Egypt.

Aetheria letourneuxiBourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) letourneuxiBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria letourneuxiServain (1890)
Aetheria cailliaudiPallary (1903)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Aetheria nilotica Bourguignat, 1880
‘Letourneux, mss.’ Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 58.

Aetheria niloticaBourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) niloticaBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria niloticaServain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Aetheria cailliaudiPallary (1903)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria petrettinii Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53, 70.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0264, dans le Ramlé à Hagueret de fente de Ramali, canal Mahmoudieh.

Aetheria petrettiniiBourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) petrettiniiBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria petrettiniiServain (1890)
Aetheria cailliaudiPallary (1903)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907)
Aetheria elliptica var. petrettiniiPallary (1909)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Aetheria senegalica Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 68.

Aetheria senegalicaBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) senegalicaBourguignat (1880)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. elongata Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 66.
(intro'd as syn of Aetheria nilotica Bourguignat, 1880)

Aetheria caillaudi var. elongataBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) niloticaBourguignat (1880)

Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. rotundata Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 66.
(intro'd as syn of Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825)

Aetheria caillaudi var. rotundataBourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) tubiferaBourguignat (1880)

Aetheria bourguignati Rochebrune, 1886
Rochebrune, 1886, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 3: 14.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0171, Gancini (Congo).

Aetheria bourguignatiRochebrune (1886)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Etheria plombea Jousseaume, 1886
‘Férussac’ Jousseaume, 1886, Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 501.
(error for Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)

Etheria plombeaJousseaume (1886)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria tanganikana Bourguignat, 1889
‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352 [as ‘Aetheria elliptica’].
Bourguignat, 1889, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 65.

Aetheria tanganikanaBourguignat (1889)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950), Daget (1998)

Aetheria africana Paetel, 1890
‘Caill.’ Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 190. [nomen nudum]

Aetheria africanaPaetel (1890)
Etheria ellipticaDaget (1998)

Aetheria electrina Paetel, 1890
Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 164. [nomen nudum]

Aetheria electrinaPaetel (1890)
Etheria ellipticaDaget (1998)

Aetheria nidus hirundinis Simroth, 1890
Simroth, 1890, Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 13: 662. [non-binomial]
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 288, pl. 1, figs. 8-10.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_5687, Kongo Falle.

Aetheria nidus hirundinisSimroth (1890)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria heteromorpha Simroth, 1894
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 287.
Type(s): TYPE SMF_5685, Kongo Falle.

Aetheria heteromorphaSimroth (1894)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria tubulosa Simroth, 1894
‘Bk.’ Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 277.
(error for Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825)

Aetheria tubulosaSimroth (1894)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria hetermorpha mutatio tubulifera Simroth, 1894
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 288, pl. 1, figs. 1-7. [infra-subsp.]
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Aetheria heteromorpha Simroth, 1894)

Aetheria hetermorpha mutatio tubuliferaSimroth (1894)
Etheria ellipticaDaget (1998)

Aetheria elliptica Form-Varietät globosa Martens, 1897
Martens, 1897, Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 218. [infra-subsp.]
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria elliptica Form-Varietät globosaMartens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica s.s.Martens (1897)
Etheria ellipticaDaget (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Aetheria cailliaudiPallary (1903), Kobelt (1904)
Ætheria ellipticaE.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Germain (1907), Germain (1918)
Aetheria ellipticaGermain (1907), Pallary (1909), Kobelt (1910), Germain (1925), Thiele (1934), Dartevelle & Schwetz (1937), Dartevelle (1939), Franc (1949)
Aetheria elliptica var. typicaR. Anthony (1907), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. cailliaudiPallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubiferaPallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. petrettiniiPallary (1909)
Etheria ellipticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1936), Modell (1942), Leloup (1950), ..., Sano et al. (2020), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021)
Etheria elliptica var. cailliaudiYonge (1962), Yonge (1978)
Etheria elliptica var. tubiferaYonge (1962), Yonge (1978)
Etheria elliptica var. typicaYonge (1978)

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