MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema
species Pleurobema curtum (Lea, 1859): synonymy
Synonymy
Unio curtus Lea, 1859
Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 112.
Lea, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: 103 [107], pl. 17, fig. 253.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84737, Columbus, Miss.
Pleurobema (s.s.) curta — Simpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) clavus — Call (1900)
Pleurobema (Group of P. curtum) curtum — Simpson (1914)
Obovaria (Pseudoon) curtus — Frierson (1927)
Obovaria (Pseudoon) curta — Haas (1969)
Pleurobema curtum — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Pleurobema (s.s.) curta — Simpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) clavus — Call (1900)
Pleurobema (Group of P. curtum) curtum — Simpson (1914)
Obovaria (Pseudoon) curtus — Frierson (1927)
Obovaria (Pseudoon) curta — Haas (1969)
Pleurobema curtum — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
