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Publication Walker et al. (2006): summary

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Full Citation

Walker, J.M., J.P. Curole, D.E. Wade, E.G. Chapman, A.E. Bogan & W.R. Hoeh. 2006. Taxonomic distribution and phylogenetic utility of gender-associated mitochondrial genomes in the Unionoida (Bivalvia). Malacologia 48(1-2): 265-282. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodontites guaranensis Haas, 1969 = Anodontites guanarensis

‘Marshall’ Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 560.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): 272.
Zieritz et al., 2015. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 53(1): 82.
(error for Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927)

Margaritifera laevis Huff et al., 2004 = Margaritifera middendorffi

‘Haas’ of Authors.
Huff et al., 2004. J. Moll. Studies 70: 381.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): 271.
Araujo et al., 2009. J. Moll. Studies 75(2): 97. [in part]
Takeuchi et al., 2015. Mollusc. Res. 35(4): 220. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Ptychorhynchus laevis Haas, 1910)

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis Bogan & Hoeh, 2000 = Cyrtonaias berlandierii

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bogan & Hoeh, 2000. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 177: Table 1.
Hoeh et al., 2001. [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida: 260.
Hoeh et al., 2002. Malac. Review 31/32(2): 127.
Hoeh et al., 2002. Evolution 56(11): Table 1.
Roe & Hoeh, 2003. Mol. Syst. Phylogeo. Moll.: 110.
Campbell et al., 2005. Invert. Biol. 124(2): Appendix 1.
Zanatta & Murphy, 2006. MPE 41(1): Table 1.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): Table 2.
Chapman et al., 2008. Malacologia 50(1-2): 306, Table 1.
Chapman et al., 2008. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 11, Table 4.
Campbell et al., 2008. Molec. Ecol. Res. 8: Table 1.
Burlakova et al., 2012. Aquatic Biosystems 8(12): [suppl. 1].
Campbell & Lydeard, 2012. Amer. Malac. Bull. 30(1): Appendix 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2016. Conserv. Genet. 17(2): 281, Table 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 109, Table 2.
Smith et al., 2019. Systemat. Biodiv. 17(4): Table S1.
Burlakova et al., 2019. Malacologia 62(2): Table 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: Table 1.
Inoue et al., 2020. Zootaxa 4816(4): 460.
Smith et al., 2020. Cladistics 36: Table 1.
Freeman et al., 2025. Malacologia 67(1/2): 247, Table 2.
(misidentified reference to Unio tampicoensis Lea, 1838)

Pseudodon vondembuschianus Walker et al., 2006 = Sundadontina tumida

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): 271.
Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 508. [in part]
Araujo et al., 2017. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 179(2): 281.
(misidentified reference to Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840)

Taxonomic Opinions

Acostaea rivolii = Mulleria rivoli

Actinonaias ligamentina = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Alathyria jacksoni

Anodontites guaranensis [sic] = Anodontites guanarensis

Anodontites trigonus = Anodontites trigona

Castalia stevensi

Chambardia rubens

Cumberlandia monodonta

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis = Mesonaias tampicoensis

Dahurinaia dahurica = Margaritifera dahurica

Diplodon deceptus = Diplodon gratus

Etheria elliptica

Fusconaia flava

Gonidea angulata

Hyridella australis

Hyridella depressa

Hyridella menziesi = Echyridella menziesii

Lampsilis teres

Ligumia recta

Lortiella rugata

Margaritifera auricularia = Pseudunio auricularius

Margaritifera falcata

Margaritifera laevis

Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritifera margaritifera durrovensis = Margaritifera margaritifera

Monocondylaea minuana

Mutela dubia

Mutela rostrata

Neotrigonia margaritacea

Potamilus purpuratus

Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Pyganodon fragilis

Pyganodon grandis

Tamsiella tamsiana

Velesunio ambiguus

Velesunio angasi
+ of Authors, unknown year

Velesunio sp. = Velesunio angasi

 
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