Marine Species Traits - Unio letsoni Whitfield, 1907 †

Traits name details

Unio letsoni Whitfield, 1907 †

AphiaID

1502964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1502964)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Proparreysia letsoni (Whitfield, 1907) †

Rank

Species

Parent

Unio Philipsson, 1788

Original name

Unio letsoni Whitfield, 1907 †

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 627, pl. 42, figs 1-4 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Unio letsoni Whitfield, 1907 †. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1502964 on 2025-05-15

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Unio letsoni Whitfield, 1907 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1502964 on 2025-05-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-04-08 11:17:34Z

created

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2022-11-21 12:29:08Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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Attributes (1)

original description Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 627, pl. 42, figs 1-4 [details]

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