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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Epioblasma obliquata

nominal species Obliquaria (Scalenaria) obliquata Rafinesque, 1820

Rafinesque, 1818, Amer. Mon. Mag. 3: 355 [as ‘Potamilus obliquatus’]. [nomen nudum]
Rafinesque, 1819, Jour. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. 88: 426 [as ‘U. (Plagiola) obliquatus’]. [nomen nudum]
Rafinesque, 1820, Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 309 [also as ‘U. obliquata’].
Rafinesque, 1864, [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 22, 29, 53.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ANSP_20226, Kentucky River.

= Epioblasma obliquata

Taxonomic Opinions

= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — FMCS, 2025
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Hopper et al., 2023
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Graf & Cummings, 2021
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — FMCS, 2021
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Williams et al., 2017
+ Pleurobema (Sintoxia) rubrum (Rafinesque, 1820) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2012
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — ITIS, 2012
= Epioblasma obliquata — Haag, 2012
= Epioblasma obliquata Rafinesque, 1820 — Bogan, 2010
= Epioblasma obliquata — Cummings & Graf, 2010
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Watters et al., 2009
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Williams et al., 2008
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Graf & Cummings, 2007
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cicerello & Schuster, 2003
= Epioblasma obliquata (Raf., 1820) — Graf, 2002
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque) — Lydeard et al., 1999
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Turgeon et al., 1998
= Epioblasma obliquata Rafinesque, 1820 — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque) — Strayer & Jirka, 1997
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cummings & Mayer, 1997
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque) — Williams et al., 1993
+ Pleurobema pyramidatum (Lea, 1840) — Vidrine, 1993
= Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Cummings & Mayer, 1992
= Epioblasma obliquata obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Turgeon et al., 1988
= Plagiola obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — R.I. Johnson, 1980
= Plagiola (Pilea) obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — R.I. Johnson, 1978
= Obliquaria obliquata Rafinesque, 1820 — Burch, 1975
= Quadrula (Obliquata) obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969
= Quadrula (Obliquata) obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Haas, 1969
= Pleurobema obliquata Rafinesque, 1820 — Morrison, 1969
= Quadrula (Obliquata) obliquata (Raf.) — Haas, 1930
= Quadrula (Obliquata) obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820) — Frierson, 1927
+ Dysnomia (Scalenilla) sulcata (Lea, 1829) — Ortmann & Walker, 1922
= Truncilla obliquata Raf. — Vanatta, 1915
- NO OPINION — Simpson, 1914
- NO OPINION — Simpson, 1900
- NO OPINION — Lea, 1870
= Unio obliquatus Rafinesque — Küster, 1862
= Unio obliquata (Raf.) — Conrad, 1853
= Scalenaria obliquata (Raf.) — Agassiz, 1852
- NO OPINION — Lea, 1852
- NO OPINION — Lea, 1836
= Unio obliquatus Raf. — Ferussac, 1835
= Obliquaria (Scalenaria) obliquata — Rafinesque, 1820
= Unio (Plagiola) obliquatus — Rafinesque, 1819
= Potamilus obliquatus — Rafinesque, 1818

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