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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Cumberlandia

species Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829): synonymy
     2 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

Unio monodonta Say, 1829
Say, 1829. New Harm. Dissem. 2(19): 293.
Say, 1830. Amer. Conch. 1: pl. 6.
Say, 1858. [in] Binney, Compl. Writings T. Say: 155.

Margaritana monodontaSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana) monodontaCall (1900)
Unio soleniformisde Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodontaUtterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Frierson (1927), ... Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Margaritana (Cumberlandia) monodontaF.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodontaHaas (1969), Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis monodontaD.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritifera monodontaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Burzynski & Soroka (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Lor et al. (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) monodontaBolotov et al. (2016)

Unio soleniformis Lea, 1831
Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 87, pl. 10, fig. 17.

Margaritana monodontaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio soleniformisde Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodontaFrierson (1927), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodontaHaas (1969)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana monodontaSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana) monodontaCall (1900)
Unio soleniformisde Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodontaUtterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Frierson (1927), ... Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Margaritana (Cumberlandia) monodontaF.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodontaHaas (1969), Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis monodontaD.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritifera monodontaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Burzynski & Soroka (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Lor et al. (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) monodontaBolotov et al. (2016)

 
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