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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae

genus Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

MargaritanaSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana)Call (1900)
Uniode Gregorio (1914)
CumberlandiaUtterback (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)F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia)Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
MargaritanopsisD.G. Smith (2001)
MargaritiferaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), ... Huang et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2018), Burzynski & Soroka (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Lor et al. (2020)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis)Bolotov et al. (2016)

 
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