MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
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Data last updated
Fri 13 February 2026
Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Arcidens
species Arcidens wheeleri (Ortmann & Walker, 1912): synonymy
Synonymy
Arkansia wheeleri Ortmann & Walker, 1912
Ortmann & Walker, 1912. Nautilus 25(9): 98, pl. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) UMMZ_105514, Ouachita River, 3 mi above Arkadelphia, Clark, Arkansas.
Arkansia wheeleri — Ortmann & Walker (1912), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), ... Howells et al. (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Inoue et al. (2014)
Arcidens (Arkansia) wheeleri — Clarke (1981), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Arcidens wheeleri — Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), IUCN (2011), Williams et al. (2017), Hewitt et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Arkansia wheeleri — Ortmann & Walker (1912), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), ... Howells et al. (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Inoue et al. (2014)
Arcidens (Arkansia) wheeleri — Clarke (1981), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Arcidens wheeleri — Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), IUCN (2011), Williams et al. (2017), Hewitt et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
