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Publication Ortmann (1913): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Ortmann, A.E. 1913. Studies in najades. Nautilus 27(8): 88-91. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Fusconaja Ortmann, 1912
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 240.
Ortmann, 1913. Nautilus 27(8): 89.
(error for Fusconaia Simpson, 1900)

Attributed Nominal Species

Fusconaja [sic] subrotunda leucogona Ortmann, 1913
Ortmann, 1913. Nautilus 27(8): 89.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio subrotundus Lea, 1831)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE CM_61.5239 (by R.I. Johnson, 1977: 238), Elk River, Gassaway, Braxton County, West Virginia.

Taxonomic Opinions

Fusconaja [sic] bursa-pastoris (Wright, B.H.) = Fusconaia subrotunda

Fusconaja [sic] subrotunda leucogona nov. var. = Fusconaia subrotunda

Margaritana margaritifera (Linnæus) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritana margaritifera falcata (Gould) = Margaritifera falcata

Margaritana sinuata (Lamarck) = Pseudunio auricularius

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