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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Alasmidonta atropurpurea

nominal species Decurambis atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831

Decurambis atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 = Alasmidonta atropurpurea

Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 5.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 80.
Type(s): NEOTYPE USNM_150522, South Fork Cumberland River, Fentress Co., Tennessee.

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea

Taxonomic Opinions

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — FMCS, 2025

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Whelan et al., 2023

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Hopper et al., 2023

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — FMCS, 2021

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Williams et al., 2017

= Alasmidonta atropurpureum (I. Lea, 1838) [sic] — IUCN, 2012

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — ITIS, 2012

= Alasmidonta atropurpureaHaag, 2012

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea Rafinesque, 1831 — Bogan, 2010

= Alasmidonta atropurpureaCummings & Graf, 2010

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Cicerello & Schuster, 2003

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Parmalee & Bogan, 1998

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Turgeon et al., 1998

= Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque) — Williams et al., 1993

= Alasmidonta atropurpureum (Rafinesque, 1831) — Turgeon et al., 1988

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831) — Clarke, 1981

+ Alasmidonta raveneliana (Lea, 1834) — R.I. Johnson, 1980

+ Alasmidonta (s.s.) marginata Say, 1819 — Burch, 1975

+ Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata (Say, 1819) — Haas, 1969

= Alasmidonta atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Morrison, 1969

= Alasmodonta (sec. Decurambis) atropurpurea (Rafinesque) — Thiele, 1934

= Decurambis marginata-atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Frierson, 1927

+ Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata Say, 1818 — Ortmann & Walker, 1922

= Alasmidonta (Decurambis) atropurpurea (Raf., 1831) — Ortmann, 1918

= Alasmidonta atropurpureum (Rafinesque, 1831) — Simpson, 1914

= Alasmidonta atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Simpson, 1900

+ Lea, 1870

+ Lea, 1852

+ Lea, 1836

= Alasmodonta atropurpureum (Rafinesque) — Ferussac, 1835

= Decurambis atropurpureum Rafinesque, 1831 — Rafinesque, 1831

 
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