Popenaias tehuantepecensis ( Crosse & Fischer, 1893 ), 2007

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Popenaias tehuantepecensis ( Crosse & Fischer, 1893)

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Original Combination: Unio tehuantepecensis Crosse & Fischer, 1893 . Diagnoses molluscorum novorum, Republicae Mexicanae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie 41:293–297. Page 296. Not figured. Figured in Fischer & Crosse 1894:618, pl. 65, figs. 3, 3a and 4.

Verbatim Type Locality: “prope Santa Efigenia, in isthmo Tehuantepec dicto, provinciae Oajaca, reipublicae Mexicanae”

Type locality: Río Novillero (Pacific Ocean), Santa Efigenia, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, [16.40387, -94.216116] .

Type specimens: Syntypes, MNHN-IM-2000-1799 (n = 11, 2 of which were figured as noted above).

Figures

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.