Unio

Unio tumidus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Unionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Bivalvia Subclassis: Palaeoheterodonta Ordo: Unionida Superfamilia: Unionoidea

Familia: Unionidae
Genus: Unio
Species (10): U. biwae – U. crassus – U. douglasiae – U. durieui – U. elongatulus – U. gibbus – U. mancus – U. pictorum – U. ravoisieri – U. tumidus

Name

Unio Philipson in Retzius, 1788

Synonyms

• Limaea Rosen, 1925
• Limella Rafinesque, 1815
• Limnaea Poli, 1791
• Unis Hutton, 1883

Species names in synonymy

• Unio aequatorius Morelet, 1885 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)
• Unio gabonensis Küster, 1862 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)
• Unio landanensis Schepman, 1891 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)
• Unio putzeysi Preston, 1912 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)
• Unio roubaudi Germain, 1907 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)
• Unio subnigra Preston, 1909 = Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862)

References

Primary references

• Retzius, A.J. 1788. Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 23 pp. Berling, Lundæ [Lund, Sweden]. GDZ Reference page. 
• Klishko, O.K., Lopes-Lima, M., Froufe, E., Bogan, A.E., Vasiliev, L. & Yanovich, L. 2017. Taxonomic reassessment of the freshwater mussel genus Unio (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Russia and Ukraine based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4286(1): 93–112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.4. Reference page. 
• Marrone, F., Nardi, G., Cianfanelli, S., Govedič, M., Barra, S.A., Arculeo, M. & Bodon, M. 2019. Diversity and taxonomy of the genus Unio Philipsson in Italy, with the designation of a neotype for Unio elongatulus C. Pfeiffer (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Unionidae). Zootaxa 4545(3): 339–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.2 Reference page. 

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