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ANSP Unionidae
Unionidae  Elliptio quadratus Lea 1859 
paralectotypes   
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donor Lea, I. Lea, I. 
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provenance Lea, I. Lea, I.
  Isaac Lea Collection 
Alcohol Catalog # A14402 
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Catalog date 18  Apr  1991 
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specific locality Near Columbus, Factory Creek 
secondary division Muscogee County 
primary division Georgia 
country USA 
body of water Apalachicola River Drainage 
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Coordinates 32°27'N, 084°59'W 
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station JAR NO. 4 
collector Elliott, S. 
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Remarks

ANSP A14402

remarks For original jar labels and alphabetical listing of taxa in jars see ANSP archive collection 201-i(a1 and a2) and for notebooks with anatomical information see archives collection 454. Alcohol collection was accessioned at ANSP as no. 372 in 1877. Old jars with original labels maintained in malacology alcohol collection area. Anatomical notes are in notebook 4:34-35. 2 males. Examined 13 June 1859. Anatomical notes published by Lea (1860: 338-339) Jour. ANSP. Johnson (1970:316-317) designated USNM 85718 as lectotype. Johnson included this taxon as a junior synonym of Elliptio complanata - not likely in the upper Coosa-Alabama River system. 

Citations

ANSP A14402

Lea, 1859. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11: 172