Bivalvia

nominal species Unio melleus Lea, 1859

Unio melleus Lea, 1859 = nomen dubium

Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 152.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 250 [68], pl. 38, fig. 129.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) BMNH_1965175, Hab._?

Taxonomic Opinions

+ — Cummings et al., 2025: 394.

= Nephronaias mellea (Lea, 1859) — Czaja et al., 2023: 87.

= Nephronaias mellea (Lea, 1859) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 20.

= Nephronaias mellea Lea, 1859 — Bogan, 2010: [23].

= Nephronaias mellea (Lea, 1859) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 308.

= Nephronaias (s.s.) mellea (Lea, 1859) — Haas, 1969: 199.

= Elliptio (Nephronaias) melleus (Lea, 1859) — Frierson, 1927: 36, sp. 129.

= Nephronaias melleus — Frierson, 1917: 47.

= Nephronaias mellea (Lea, 1859) — Simpson, 1914: 285.

= Nephronaias melleus (Lea, 1859) — Simpson, 1900: 597.

= Margaron (Unio) melleus (Lea) — Lea, 1870: 35.

= Unio melleus Lea, 1859 — Reeve, 1865: pl. 21, sp. 92.