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

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Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Utterbackiana couperiana

nominal species Anodonta dunlapiana Lea, 1842

Lea, 1842, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 248 [86], pl. 27, fig. 65.
Lea, 1843, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 225.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86564, Charleston, S. Carolina.

= Utterbackiana couperiana

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Anodonta couperiana Lea, 1842 — Burch, 1975
+ Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperiana Lea, 1840 — R.I. Johnson, 1972
+ Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperiana Lea, 1840 — R.I. Johnson, 1970
+ Anodonta (Pyganodon) cataracta gibbosa Say, 1825 — Haas, 1969
+ Anodonta cowperiana Lea, 1840 — Clench & Turner, 1956
= Anodonta (Lastena) couperiana-dunlapiana Lea, 1842 — Frierson, 1927
= Anodonta gibbosa var. dunlapiana Lea, 1842 — Simpson, 1914
= Anodonta gibbosa var. dunlapiana Lea, 1842 — Simpson, 1900
= Anodonta dunlapiana Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888
= Margaron (Anodonta) dunlapiana (Lea) — Lea, 1870
= Anodon dunlopiana [sic] (Lea, 1842) — Sowerby, 1869
= Anodonta dunlapiana Lea — Hanley, 1856
= Margaron (Anodonta) dunlapiana (Lea) — Lea, 1852

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