Heard, W.H. & R.H. Guckert. 1970. A re-evaluation of the recent Unionacea (Pelecypoda) of North America. Malacologia 10: 333-355. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13148064.
Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 338.
(name corrected to Cumberlandiidae Heard & Guckert, 1970)
Type genus: Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912 = Cumberlandia
Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 338 [as ‘Cumberlandinae’].
Burch, 1975. Freshw. Unio. North Amer.: 8.
Davis & Fuller, 1981. Malacologia 20: 237, 250.
(correct name for Cumberlandidae Heard & Guckert, 1970)
Type genus: Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912 = Cumberlandia
Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 338.
Type genus: Megalonaias Utterback, 1915 = Megalonaias
Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 339.
Type genus: Popenaias Frierson, 1927 = Popenaias
‘Swainson’ Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 348, note 18.
(error for Cunicula Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio purpurascens Lamarck, 1819 = Elliptio complanata
+ Amblema costata Rafinesque, 1820
+ Pleurobema mytiloides Rafinesque, 1820