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Publication Graf & Cummings (2006): summary

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Full Citation

Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Palaeoheterodont diversity (Mollusca: Trigonioida + Unionoida): what we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 343-394. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Velesunio ambiguous Graf & Cummings, 2006 = Velesunio ambiguus

‘Philippi’ Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348, table 2.
‘Philippi’ Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): [4].
(error for Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)

Lasmigona compressa Graf & Ó Foighil, 2000 = Lasmigona costata

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Graf & Ó Foighil, 2000. J. Moll. Studies 66: 160.
Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348.
Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310.
Jadhav & Jamkhedkar, 2009. Res. J. BioTech. 4(1): 43.
Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 177.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1.
Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1.
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: Table 1.
Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1.
Jeratthitikul et al., 2022. Sci. Repts. 12: Table S1.
Wu et al., 2023. ZooKeys 1166: 263, Table 1.
Liu et al., 2023. ZooKeys 1179: Table 1.
Dai et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(2): Table 1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Symphynota compressa Lea, 1829)

Pilsbryoconcha exilis Graf, 2002 = Pilsbryoconcha exilis

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Graf, 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 66.
Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 372.
Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310.
Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 177. [in part]
(reference to Anodonta exilis Lea, 1838)

Lortiella froggattii Graf & Cummings, 2006 = Lortiella froggatti

‘Iredale’ of Authors.
‘Iredale’ Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 365.
‘Iredale’ Graf & Cummings, 2007. J. Moll. Studies 73: 313.
Bogan, 2010. FADA: [20].
(error for Lortiella froggatti Iredale, 1934)

Pseudodon vondembuschianus Graf, 2002 = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Graf, 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 66.
Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348.
Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310.
Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506. [in part]
Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): 310. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 2’]. [in part]
Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 207. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part]
Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part]
Konopleva et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part]
(reference to Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840)

Taxonomic Opinions

Acostaea rivolii (Deshayes, 1827) = Mulleria rivoli

Actinonaias carinata (Barnes, 1823) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927

Anodontites trigonus (Spix, 1827) = Anodontites trigona

Aspatharia chaiziana (Rang, 1835)

Aspatharia rugifera (Dunker, 1858)

Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) = Unio caffer

Castalia ambigua (Lamarck, 1819)

Castalia stevensi (Baker, H.B., 1930)

Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)

Coelatura aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827)

Contradens contradens (Lea, 1838) = Lens contradens

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Diplodon chilensis (Gray, 1828)

Diplodon rotundus (Spix & Wagner, 1827) = Diplodon gratus
+ Diplodon (Cyclomya s.s.) fontainianus var. deceptus Simpson, 1914

Diplodon rotundus (Spix & Wagner, 1827)

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Eurynia dilatata

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)

Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807

Fusconaia ebena (Lea, 1831) = Reginaia ebenus

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Gonidea angulata (Lea, 1838)

Hyridella australis (Lamarck, 1819)

Hyridella depressa (Lamarck, 1819)

Hyridella menziesi (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843) = Echyridella menziesii

Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck, 1819)

Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829) = Platynaias compressa

Leila blainvilliana (Lea, 1834)

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Lortiella froggattii [sic] Iredale, 1934 = Lortiella froggatti

Lortiella rugata (Sowerby, 1868)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Monocondylaea minuana (d’Orbigny, 1835)

Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)

Mutela rostrata (Rang, 1835)

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1927

Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804)

Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820

Parreysia olivarius (Lea, 1831)
+ Diplasma (Hemisolasma?) vitrea Rafinesque, 1831

Parreysia olivarius (Lea, 1831) = Indonaia olivaria

Pilsbryoconcha exilis (Lea, 1838)

Pleiodon ovata (Swainson, 1823) = Pleiodon ovatus

Pleurobema coccineum (Lea, 1838) = Pleurobema sintoxia

Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817

Pseudodon vondembuschianus (Lea, 1840)

Pseudomulleria dalyi (Smith, E.A., 1898)

Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)

Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Quadrula verrucosa

Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Velesunio ambiguous [sic] (Philippi, 1847) = Velesunio ambiguus

Velesunio angasi (Sowerby, 1867)

Villosa iris (Lea, 1829) = Cambarunio iris

 
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