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

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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Epioblasma propinqua

nominal species Unio propinquus Lea, 1857

Lea, 1857, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 83.
Lea, 1862, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: 63 [67], pl. 5, fig. 212.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84332, Florence, Alabama.

= Epioblasma propinqua

Taxonomic Opinions

= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — FMCS, 2025
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Hopper et al., 2023
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Graf & Cummings, 2021
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — FMCS, 2021
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Williams et al., 2017
= Epioblasma propinqua (I. Lea, 1857) — ITIS, 2012
= Epioblasma propinqua — Haag, 2012
= Epioblasma propinqua (I. Lea, 1857) — IUCN, 2011
= Epioblasma propinqua Lea, 1857 — Bogan, 2010
= Epioblasma propinqua — Cummings & Graf, 2010
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Williams et al., 2008
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Graf & Cummings, 2007
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Cicerello & Schuster, 2003
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea) — Lydeard et al., 1999
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Turgeon et al., 1998
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Cummings & Mayer, 1997
= Epioblasma propinqua (I. Lea) — Williams et al., 1993
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Bogan, 1993
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Cummings & Mayer, 1992
= Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Turgeon et al., 1988
= Plagiola propinqua (Lea, 1857) — R.I. Johnson, 1980
= Plagiola (Torulosa) propinqua (Lea, 1857) — R.I. Johnson, 1978
= Dysnomia torulosa propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Burch, 1975
= Dysnomia propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Stansbery, 1970
= Dysnomia (Torulosa) propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Haas, 1969
= Dysnomia (Torulosa) propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Frierson, 1927
= Dysnomia (Pilea) torulosa propinqua (Lea) — Ortmann, 1925
+ Dysnomia (s.s.) torulosa (Rafinesque) — Ortmann, 1924
= Truncilla propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Ortmann, 1918
= Truncilla (Pilea) propinqua (Lea, 1857) — Simpson, 1914
- NO OPINION — de Gregorio, 1914
= Truncilla (Pilea) propinqua Lea — Simpson, 1900
= Unio propinquus Lea — Pilsbry & Rhoads, 1896
= Unio propinquus Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888
= Unio propinquus Lea — Lewis, 1871
= Margaron (Unio) propinquus (Lea) — Lea, 1870
= Unio propinquus Lea, 1857 — Sowerby, 1868

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