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Publication Ortmann (1924): taxonomic opinions
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Ortmann, A.E. 1924. The naiad-fauna of Duck River in Tennessee. American Midland Naturalist 9(1): 18-62. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Actinonaias carinata (Barnes) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Actinonaias carinata var. gibba (Simpson) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Actinonaias pectorosa (Conrad) = Ortmanniana pectorosa
+ Unio perdix Lea, 1834

Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata (Say) = Alasmidonta marginata

Alasmidonta (Decurambis) raveneliana (Lea) = Alasmidonta raveneliana

Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) minor (Lea) = Pressodonta viridis

Amblema costata Rafinesque = Amblema plicata
+ Unio perplicatus Conrad, 1841
+ Unio undulatus Hanley, 1843

Anodonta grandis Say = Pyganodon grandis

Carunculina cylindrella (Lea) = Toxolasma cylindrellus

Carunculina glans = Toxolasma lividum

Carunculina moesta (Lea) = Toxolasma lividum

Conradilla caelata (Conrad) = Lemiox rimosus

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say)

Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque)

Cyprogenia irrorata (Lea) = Cyprogenia stegaria

Dromus dromas (Lea)

Dromus dromas caperatus (Lea) = Dromus dromas

Dysnomia (Pilea) biemarginata (Lea) = Epioblasma biemarginata

Dysnomia (Pilea) capsaeformis (Lea) = Epioblasma capsaeformis

Dysnomia (Pilea) florentina (Lea) = Epioblasma florentina

Dysnomia (Pilea) florentina walkeri (Wilson & Clark) = Epioblasma walkeri

Dysnomia (Pilea) torulosa gubernaculum (Reeve) = Epioblasma gubernaculum

Dysnomia (Pilea) turgidula (Lea) = Epioblasma curtisii
+ Unio deviatus Reeve, 1864
+ Truncilla curtisii Utterback, 1916

Dysnomia (Pilea) turgidula (Lea) = Epioblasma turgidula

Dysnomia (s.s.) lewisi (Walker) = Epioblasma lewisii

Dysnomia (s.s.) stewardsoni (Lea) = Epioblasma stewardsonii

Dysnomia (s.s.) sulcata (Lea) = Epioblasma obliquata

Dysnomia (s.s.) torulosa (Rafinesque) = Epioblasma torulosa
+ Unio propinquus Lea, 1857

Dysnomia (s.s.) torulosa (Rafinesque) = Epioblasma propinqua

Dysnomia (Scalenilla) haysiana (Lea) = Epioblasma haysiana

Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) arcaeformis (Lea) = Epioblasma arcaeformis

Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) brevidens (Lea) = Epioblasma brevidens

Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) lenior (Lea) = Epioblasma lenior

Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) triquetra (Rafinesque) = Epioblasma triquetra
+ Unio triangularis Barnes, 1823

Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck)
+ Unio gibber Lea, 1838

Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck) = Pleuronaia gibber

Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque) = Eurynia dilatata

Fusconaia barnesiana (Lea) = Pleuronaia barnesiana
+ Unio validus Lea, 1871
+ Unio lyonii Lea, 1865

Fusconaia barnesiana bigbyensis (Lea) = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Fusconaia barnesiana tumescens = Pleuronaia barnesiana
+ Unio crudus Lea, 1871

Fusconaia cuneolus (Lea)

Fusconaia cuneolus appressa (Lea) = Fusconaia cuneolus

Fusconaia edgariana (Lea) = Fusconaia cor

Fusconaia edgariana analoga (Ortmann) = Fusconaia cor

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque)

Fusconaia subrotunda (Lea)

Lampsilis anodontoides (Lea) = Lampsilis teres

Lampsilis fasciola (Rafinesque)
+ Unio perradiatus Lea, 1858
+ Unio multiradiatus Lea, 1829

Lampsilis orbiculata (Hildreth) = Obovaria subrotunda

Lampsilis ovata (Say)

Lampsilis ovata ventricosa (Barnes) = Lampsilis cardium

Lampsilis virescens (Lea)

Lasmigona (Alasminota) holstonia (Lea) = Alasminota holstonia

Lasmigona (Pterosyna) complanata (Barnes) = Pterosyna complanata

Lasmigona (s.s.) costata (Rafinesque) = Lasmigona costata

Lastena lata (Rafinesque) = Hemistena lata

Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque) = Potamilus fragilis
+ Unio gracilis Barnes, 1823

Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) = Potamilus leptodon
+ Symphynota tenuissima Lea, 1829

Lexingtonia dolabelloides (Lea) = Pleuronaia dolabelloides
+ Unio subglobatus Lea, 1871

Lexingtonia dolabelloides conradi (Vanatta) = Pleuronaia dolabelloides

Ligumia recta latissima (Rafinesque) = Ligumia recta

Medionidus conradicus (Lea)

Megalonaias gigantea (Barnes) = Megalonaias nervosa

Micromya fabalis (Lea) = Paetulunio fabalis

Micromya iris = Cambarunio iris

Micromya nebulosa (Conrad) = Cambarunio iris
+ Margaron (Unio) cumberlandianus Lea, 1852
+ Unio notatus Lea, 1838
+ Unio obscurus Lea, 1838
+ Unio simus Lea, 1838

Micromya nebulosa (Conrad) = Cambarunio simus

Micromya nebulosa (Conrad) = Cambarunio nebulosus

Micromya perpurpurea (Lea) = Venustaconcha trabalis

Micromya taeniata (Conrad) = Cambarunio taeniatus
+ Unio pictus Lea, 1834
+ Unio punctatus Lea, 1865

Micromya trabalis (Conrad) = Venustaconcha trabalis

Micromya vanuxemensis (Lea) = Leaunio vanuxemensis
+ Unio nashvillianus Lea, 1834

Micromya vanuxemensis (Lea) = Sagittunio subrostratus

Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque

Obovaria (s.s.) olivaria (Rafinesque) = Obovaria olivaria

Obovaria (s.s.) retusa (Lamarck) = Obovaria retusa

Obovaria (s.s.) subrotunda (Rafinesque) = Obovaria subrotunda

Obovaria (s.s.) subrotunda lens (Lea) = Obovaria subrotunda
+ Unio depygis Conrad, 1866

Pegias fabula (Lea)

Plagiola lineolata (Rafinesque) = Ellipsaria lineolata
+ Unio securis Lea, 1829

Plethobasus cooperianus (Green) [sic]

Plethobasus cyphyus (Rafinesque)

Plethobasus cyphyus compertus (Frierson) = Plethobasus cyphyus

Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque)

Pleurobema cordatum catillus (Conrad) = Pleurobema sintoxia

Pleurobema cordatum pyramidatum (Lea) = Pleurobema sintoxia

Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad)
+ Unio clinchensis Lea, 1867
+ Unio lesleyi Lea, 1860
+ Unio patulus Conrad, 1838
+ Unio clavus Call, 1885

Pleurobema oviforme argenteum (Lea) = Pleurobema oviforme

Pleurobema oviforme holstonense (Lea) = Pleurobema oviforme

Proptera alata (Say) = Potamilus alatus

Ptychobranchus fasciolare (Rafinesque) = Ptychobranchus fasciolaris

Ptychobranchus subtentum (Say) = Ptychobranchus subtentus

Quadrula cylindrica (Say) = Theliderma cylindrica

Quadrula cylindrica strigillata (Wright) = Theliderma cylindrica

Quadrula fragosa (Conrad)

Quadrula intermedia (Conrad) = Theliderma metanevra
+ Unio tuberosus Lea, 1840

Quadrula intermedia (Conrad) = Theliderma intermedia

Quadrula metanevra (Rafinesque) = Theliderma metanevra

Quadrula pustulosa (Lea) = Pustulosa pustulosa

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque)

Quadrula verrucosa (Rafinesque)

Strophitus rugosus (Swainson) = Strophitus undulatus

Truncilla donaciformis (Lea)

Truncilla truncata (Rafinesque)
+ Unio elegans Lea, 1831