Popenaias popeii ( Lea, 1857 )

Inoue, Kentaro, Cummings, Kevin S., Tiemann, Jeremy S., Miller, Thomas D., Johnson, Nathan A., Smith, Chase H. & Randklev, Charles R., 2020, A new species of freshwater mussel in the genus Popenaias Frierson, 1927, from the Gulf coastal rivers of central Mexico (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae) with comments on the genus, Zootaxa 4816 (4), pp. 457-490 : 472

Popenaias popeii ( Lea, 1857)

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Common name: Texas Hornshell.

Original combination: Unio popeii Lea, 1857 . Description of six new species of fresh water and land shells of Texas and Tamaulipas, from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9:101–102. Not figured. Figured in Lea (1860:372, pl. 66, fig. 197).

Verbatim type locality: “ Devils River and Río Salado , Texas.”

Type locality: Río Salado (Gulf of Mexico—Rio Grande), 6 air km SSE of Anáhuac, Nuevo León, Mexico, [27.19444, -100.10917] .

Type specimens: Lectotype: USNM 85895 , designated and the type locality fixed by Johnson (1974:115, as the “figured holotype ”; 1999:21, 62, pl. 6, fig. 1, as P. popei and incorrectly as USNM 85859 ) . Paralectotypes: from the type locality, USNM 85895 b (2).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Right valve external shells. (A) Popenaias berezai n. sp., Río Valles, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Holotype CNMO 8037, ex. INHS 90397.5; (B) Popenaias ganina, Río Gallinas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Lectotype ANSP 99523a; (C) Popenaias popeii, Río Salado, Nuevo León, Mexico, Lectotype USNM 85895.

FIGURE 9. Presumptive historic and current distributional ranges of (A) Popenaias berezai n. sp. in Mexican Gulf coastal rivers, (B) Popenaias ganina in the Río Gallinas of the Río Pánuco basin, (C) Popenaias popeii in the Rio Grande basin of Mexico and the United States, and (D) Popenaias tehuantepecensis including Nephronaias rowellii (Lea, 1859) in Central America.