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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Cumberlandia
species Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829): synonymy
2 specimens + 1 GenBank voucher
Synonymy
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 monodonta — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana) monodonta — Call (1900)
Unio soleniformis — de Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodonta — Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Frierson (1927), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritana (Cumberlandia) monodonta — F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodonta — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis monodonta — D.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritifera monodonta — Graf & 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) monodonta — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Unio soleniformis Lea, 1831
Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 87, pl. 10, fig. 17.
Margaritana monodonta — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio soleniformis — de Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodonta — Frierson (1927), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodonta — Haas (1969)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Margaritana monodonta — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana) monodonta — Call (1900)
Unio soleniformis — de Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia monodonta — Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Frierson (1927), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Margaritana (Cumberlandia) monodonta — F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) monodonta — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis monodonta — D.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritifera monodonta — Graf & 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) monodonta — Bolotov et al. (2016)
