Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema

Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 286.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 211 [49], pl. 14, fig. 26.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84677, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) plena — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) solidus — Call (1900)
Quadrula obliqua — Ortmann (1909)
Pleurobema plena — Ortmann (1910)
Unio plenus — de Gregorio (1914)
Pleurobema obliquum plenum — Utterback (1915)
Quadrula cordata — Vanatta (1915)
Pleurobema obliqua cordatum — Ortmann (1918)
Pleurobema plenum — Ortmann & Walker (1922), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Pleurobema cordatum plenum — Ortmann (1925), Gordon et al. (1979)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata-plena — Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata plena — Haas (1969)
Pleurobema premorsa — Morrison (1969)
Pleurobema cordatum — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Strayer & Jirka (1997)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plena — Campbell & Lydeard (2012)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenum — Burlakova et al. (2012)
‘Rafinesque’ Vanatta, 1915. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 67: 558.
(misidentified reference to Obovaria cordata Rafinesque, 1820)
Pleurobema plenum — Ortmann & Walker (1922), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Watters et al. (2009)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) plena — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) solidus — Call (1900)
Quadrula obliqua — Ortmann (1909)
Pleurobema plena — Ortmann (1910)
Unio plenus — de Gregorio (1914)
Pleurobema obliquum plenum — Utterback (1915)
Quadrula cordata — Vanatta (1915)
Pleurobema obliqua cordatum — Ortmann (1918)
Pleurobema plenum — Ortmann & Walker (1922), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Pleurobema cordatum plenum — Ortmann (1925), Gordon et al. (1979)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata-plena — Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata plena — Haas (1969)
Pleurobema premorsa — Morrison (1969)
Pleurobema cordatum — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Strayer & Jirka (1997)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plena — Campbell & Lydeard (2012)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenum — Burlakova et al. (2012)