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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Alasmidonta raveneliana

nominal species Margaritana raveneliana Lea, 1834

image of type lot

Margaritana raveneliana Lea, 1834 = Alasmidonta raveneliana

specimen image from publicationLea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 106, pl. 17, fig. 50.
(renamed Unio swananoensis Hanley, 1843)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86254 (by Clarke, 1981: 73), Swananee River, North Carolina.

= Alasmidonta raveneliana

Taxonomic Opinions

= Alasmidonta ravenelianaPerkins et al., 2025

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — FMCS, 2025

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Whelan et al., 2023

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Hopper et al., 2023

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — FMCS, 2021

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Williams et al., 2017

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — IUCN, 2012

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (I. Lea, 1834) — ITIS, 2012

= Alasmidonta ravenelianaHaag, 2012

= Alasmidonta raveneliana Lea, 1834 — Bogan, 2010

= Alasmidonta ravenelianaCummings & Graf, 2010

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Bogan, 2002

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Turgeon et al., 1998

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (I. Lea) — Williams et al., 1993

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Turgeon et al., 1988

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Clarke, 1981

= Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — R.I. Johnson, 1980

= Alasmidonta (s.s.) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Burch, 1975

+ Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata (Say, 1819) — Haas, 1969

+ Alasmidonta atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Morrison, 1969

+ Decurambis marginata-atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Frierson, 1927

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) raveneliana (Lea) — Ortmann, 1924

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Ortmann, 1918

= Alasmidonta (Rugifera) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Simpson, 1914

= Alasmidonta (Rugifera) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Simpson, 1900

= Margaritana raveneliana Lea — B.H. Wright, 1888

= Margaron (Margaritana) raveneliana (Lea) — Lea, 1870

= Margaritana raveneliana Lea — Küster, 1862

= Baphia (Calceola) raveneliana (Lea) — Adams & Adams, 1857

= Strophitus ravenelianus (Lea) — Conrad, 1853

= Alasmodonta [sic] raveneliana Lea — Agassiz, 1852

= Margaron (Margaritana) raveneliana (Lea) — Lea, 1852

+ Unio swananoensisHanley, 1843

= Margarita (Margaritana) raveneliana Lea — Lea, 1838

= Margarita (Margaritana) raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — Lea, 1836

= Alasmodonta raveneliana (Lea) — Ferussac, 1835

 
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