Publication Heard & Guckert (1970): summary

Full Citation

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.

Attributed Nominal Families

CUMBERLANDIDAE Heard & Guckert, 1970

Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 338.
(name corrected to Cumberlandiidae Heard & Guckert, 1970)
Type genus: Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912 = Cumberlandia

CUMBERLANDIIDAE Heard & Guckert, 1970

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

LONGIDAE Heard & Guckert, 1970

Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 341, 349, note 27.

MEGALONAIADIDAE Heard & Guckert, 1970

Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 338.
Type genus: Megalonaias Utterback, 1915 = Megalonaias

POPENAIADIDAE Heard & Guckert, 1970

Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 339.
Type genus: Popenaias Frierson, 1927 = Popenaias

Attributed Nominal Genera

Cinicula Heard & Guckert, 1970

‘Swainson’ Heard & Guckert, 1970. Malacologia 10: 348, note 18.
(error for Cunicula Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio purpurascens Lamarck, 1819 = Elliptio complanata

Taxonomic Opinions

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

+ Amblema costata Rafinesque, 1820

Anodonta cygneus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Anodonta cygnea

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say)

Lampsilis ovatus (Say, 1817) = Lampsilis ovata

Margaritifera falcata (Gould)

There are 15 species taxonomic opinions attributed to this publication.

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)

+ Pleurobema mytiloides Rafinesque, 1820

Popenaias popei (Lea, 1843) [sic] = Popenaias popeii

Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)