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
Data last updated
Thu 22 January 2026
Publication Stansbery (1970): summary
Full Citation
Stansbery, D.H. 1970. American Malacological Union Symposium: Rare and Endangered Mollusks: 2. Eastern Freshwater Mollusks (I) The Mississippi and St. Lawrence Systems. Malacologia 10(1): 9-22. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal Species
Dromus dromus ‘Lea’ of Authors = Dromus dromas
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 615.
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 317.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N452.
Stansbery, 1970. Malacologia 10(1): 18.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1066.
Serb, 2006. J. Moll. Studies 72: 427.
(error for Unio dromas Lea, 1834)
Taxonomic Opinions
Arkansia wheeleri Ortmann & Walker, 1912 = Arcidens wheeleri
Carunculina cylindrellus (Lea, 1868) = Toxolasma cylindrellus
Carunculina glans (Lea, 1831) = Toxolasma lividum
+ Unio moestus Lea, 1841
Conradilla caelatus (Conrad, 1834) = Lemiox rimosus
Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)
There are 50 species taxonomic opinions attributed to this publication.
Cyprogenia aberti (Conrad, 1850)
Dromus dromus [sic] (Lea, 1834) = Dromus dromas
Dysnomia arcaeformis (Lea, 1831) = Epioblasma arcaeformis
Dysnomia biemarginata (Lea, 1857) = Epioblasma biemarginata + Epioblasma turgidula
+ Unio turgidulus Lea, 1858
Dysnomia flexuosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Epioblasma flexuosa
Dysnomia florentina (Lea, 1857) = Epioblasma florentina + Epioblasma walkeri
+ Truncilla walkeri Wilson & Clark, 1914
Dysnomia haysiana (Lea, 1834) = Epioblasma haysiana
Dysnomia lenior (Lea, 1840) = Epioblasma lenior
Dysnomia lewisi (Walker, 1910) = Epioblasma lewisii
Dysnomia personata (Say, 1829) = Epioblasma personata
Dysnomia propinqua (Lea, 1857) = Epioblasma propinqua
Dysnomia sampsoni (Lea, 1861) = Epioblasma sampsonii
Dysnomia stewardsoni (Lea, 1852) = Epioblasma stewardsonii
Dysnomia sulcata (Lea, 1829) = Epioblasma obliquata + Epioblasma perobliqua
+ Unio gibbosus var. perobliquus Conrad, 1836
Dysnomia torulosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Epioblasma torulosa + Epioblasma rangiana + Epioblasma gubernaculum
+ Unio rangianus Lea, 1838
+ Unio gubernaculum Reeve, 1865
Fusconaia cuneolus (Lea, 1840)
Fusconaia edgarianus (Lea, 1840) = Fusconaia cor
Lampsilis orbiculata (Hildreth, 1828) = Obovaria subrotunda + Lampsilis higginsii
+ Unio higginsii Lea, 1857
Lampsilis virescens (Lea, 1858)
Lastena lata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Hemistena lata
Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus leptodon
Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea, 1840) = Pleuronaia dolabelloides
Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)
Pegias fabula (Lea, 1838)
Plethobasus cicatricosus (Say, 1829)
Plethobasus cooperianus (Lea, 1834)
Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)
Pleurobema pyramidatum (Lea, 1831) = Pleurobema sintoxia
Proptera capax (Green, 1832) = Potamilus capax
Ptychobranchus subtentum (Say, 1825) = Ptychobranchus subtentus
Quadrula cylindricus (Say, 1817) = Theliderma cylindrica
+ Unio cylindricus var. strigillatus B.H. Wright, 1898
Quadrula intermedia (Conrad, 1836) = Theliderma intermedia
Quadrula sparsa (Lea, 1841) = Theliderma sparsa
Simpsoniconcha ambigua (Say, 1825) = Simpsonaias ambigua
Villosa ortmanni (Walker, 1925) = Leaunio ortmanni
Villosa trabalis (Conrad, 1834) = Venustaconcha trabalis
+ Unio perpurpureus Lea, 1861
