original description
Lea, I. (1842). Description of new fresh water and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 8(2): 163-250 (+ 1 page contents, 1 page corrigenda), plates 5-27 [16 December; also issued separately as volume III of "Observations on the genus <I>Unio</I>"]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957426
page(s): corrigenda page after p. 250 [details]
original description
Bieler, R. (2021). Isaac Lea's (1792-1886) substitutions and other modifications of his own names of molluscan species. <em>Malacologia.</em> 64(1): 1-56.
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status Introduced as replacement name for preoccupied Melania laevigata I. Lea, 1841 but itself a junior homonym of Melania laevis Gray, 1833. [details]