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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina

genus Utterbackia F.C. Baker, 1927: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Utterbachia F.C. Baker, 1927

F.C. Baker, 1927. Amer. Midl. Nat. 10(7): 221.
(incorrect original spelling of Utterbackia F.C. Baker, 1927)
Type species: Anodonta imbecillis Say, 1829 = Utterbackia imbecillis

Utterbackia F.C. Baker, 1927

F.C. Baker, 1927. Amer. Midl. Nat. 10(7): 221.
F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 170.
(correct name for Utterbachia F.C. Baker, 1927)
Type species: Anodonta imbecillis Say, 1829 (orig. desig.) = Utterbackia imbecillis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Utterbackia, since 1900.

AnodontaSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), ... Howells et al. (1996), Rosenberg et al. (1997), Adamkewicz et al. (1997), Contreras-Arquieta (2000), ITIS (2012)
Anodonta (s.s.)Martens (1900)
Unio (Anodonta)Call (1900)
LastenaUtterback (1915)
Anodonta (Lastena)Frierson (1927), Haas (1930), Haas (1969)
UtterbackiaF.C. Baker (1927), F.C. Baker (1928), Hoeh (1990), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), ... Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Anodonta (Utterbackia)R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Heard (1975), Kat (1983), R.I. Johnson (1999)
U.Marshall et al. (2018)

 
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