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

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Publication Huber (2010): taxonomic opinions
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. 901 pp.

Taxonomic Opinions

Adacna laeviuscula (E. Eichwald, 1829)

Adacna plicata (E. Eichwald, 1829) = Hypanis plicata

Adacna vitrea (E. Eichwald, 1829)

Anticorbula fluviatilis
+ Guianadesma sinuosum Morrison, 1943

Arcuatula arcuatula (S.C.T. Hanley, 1844)
+ Modiola varicosa Gould, 1844

Arcuatula capensis (C.F. Krauss, 1848)

Arcuatula glaberrima (W.R. Dunker, 1857)

Arcuatula japonica (W.R. Dunker, 1857)

Arcuatula leucosticta (Martens, 1897)

Arcuatula papyria (T.A. Conrad, 1846)

Arcuatula perfragilis (W.R. Dunker, 1857)

Arcuatula senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
+ Modiola liturata Menke, 1830

Arcuatula tristis (Dunker, 1857)
+ Volsella subpurpurea Dunker, 1857

Arcuatula variegata (Benson, 1856)

Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cerastoderma glaucum (J.L.M. Poiret, 1789)

Congeria hoeblichi = Rheodreissena hoeblichi

Congeria subglobosa

Cyrenoida americana

Cyrenoida dupontia L. de Joannis, 1835
+ Cyrenella senegalensis Deshayes, 1854
+ Cyrenoidea rhodopyga Martens, 1891

Cyrenoida dupontia L. de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida rhodopyga

Cyrenoida floridana

Cyrenoida insula

Cyrenoida panamensis

Cyrenoida rosea (A. d’Ailly, 1896) = Cyrenoida rhodopyga
+ Cyrenoidea rosea brevidentata Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

Didacna trigonoides (P.S. Pallas, 1771)

Dreissena (Carinodreissena) carinata (W.R. Dunker, 1853) = Dreissena carinata
+ Dreissena stankovici Lvova & Starobogatov, 1982
+ Dreissensia hellenica Locard, 1893
+ Dreissensia thiesae Locard, 1893
+ Dreissena bourguignati var. blanci Westerlund, 1890
+ Dreissena blanci var. presbensis Kobelt, 1915

Dreissena (Pontodreissena) bugensis N. Andrusov, 1897 = Dreissena bugensis

Dreissena (Pontodreissena) rostriformis = Dreissena caspia
+ Dreissensia grimmi Andrusov, 1897
+ Dreissena eichwaldi Issel, 1866
+ Dreissena brardi Eichwald, 1885

Dreissena (Pontodreissena) rostriformis = Dreissena rostriformis

Dreissena (Pontodreissena) rostriformis = Dreissena grimmi

Dreissena (s.s.) anatolica (Locard, 1893) = Dreissena anatolica

Dreissena (s.s.) bourguignati (Locard, 1883) = Dreissena bourguignati
+ Dreissensia chantrei Locard, 1883

Dreissena (s.s.) caputlacus Schütt, 1993 = Dreissena caputlacus

Dreissena (s.s.) caspia = Dreissena caspia
+ Dreissensia caspia pallasi Andrusov, 1897

Dreissena (s.s.) elata = Dreissena elata

Dreissena (s.s.) gallandi = Dreissena gallandi

Dreissena (s.s.) polymorphus (P.S. Pallas, 1771) = Dreissena polymorpha
+ Dreissensia bedoti Locard, 1893
+ Dreissensia magnifica Locard, 1893
+ Dreissensia paradoxa Locard, 1893
+ Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835
+ Mytilus e fluvio wolga Chemnitz, 1795

Erodona mactroides “Daudin” Bosc, 1801
+ Potamomya nimbosa Hinds, 1843

Galatea bengoensis

Galatea bernardii W.R. Dunker, 1857
+ Galatea cumingii Bernardi, 1860

Galatea biangulata = Galatea paradoxa
+ Galateia pseudoradiata Brito Capello, 1878

Galatea cailliaudii = Galatea cailliaudi

Galatea congica O. Boettger, 1885
+ Galateia tuckeyi Dautzenberg, 1891
+ Galateia duponti Dautzenberg, 1891
+ Galatea rubrotincta Preston, 1909

Galatea laeta R.A. Philippi, 1848 = Galatea bengoensis
+ Venus aegyptiaca Chemnitz, 1795
+ Galatea chemnitzii Philippi, 1851
+ Galateia aguiarii Brito Capello, 1878
+ Galateia bocagii Brito Capello, 1878

Galatea nux

Galatea paradoxa (I. von Born, 1778)
+ Galathea concamerata Duval, 1840
+ Galatea kochii Bernardi, 1860
+ Galatea truncata Dunker, 1867
+ Galatea lubackii Bernardi, 1860
+ Galatea heukelomii Bernardi, 1860
+ Venus hermaphrodita Gmelin, 1791
+ Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804

Galatea quanzae (F.A. de Brito Capello, 1878) = Galatea bernardii

Galatea rubicunda R.A. Philippi, 1848 = Galatea bengoensis

Galatea schwabi (Clench, 1929)

Galatea tenuicula

Galatea triangularis = Galatea bernardii
+ Galatea triangularis Sowerby, 1868

Glauconome angulata L.A. Reeve, 1844
+ Glauconome primeana Crosse & Debeaux, 1863

Glauconome cerea
+ Tapes oncodes Melvill, 1897

Glauconome chinensis J.E. Gray, 1828
+ Glauconome sculpta Sowerby, 1894

Glauconome cumingi Prime
+ Glauconome sumatrensis Prime, 1862

Glauconome curta Reeve

Glauconome jayana Prime, 1861

Glauconome psammotella Deshayes, 1853

Glauconome radiata L.A. Reeve, 1844
+ Glauconometta plankta Iredale, 1936

Glauconome rugosa S.C.T. Hanley, 1843
+ Glauconome oblonga Prime, 1865

Glauconome straminea Reeve
+ Glauconome corrugata Reeve, 1844
+ Glauconome rostralis Deshayes, 1854

Glauconome virens (Linnaeus, 1767)

Iphigenia altior (Broderip & Sowerby I, 1833)
+ Iphigenia ambigua Bertin, 1881

Iphigenia brasiliensis (Lamarck, 1818)
+ Iphigenia media Shuttleworth, 1856

Iphigenia laevigata (J.F. Gmelin, 1791)
+ Iphigenia rostrata Römer, 1869
+ Iphigenia fragilis Bertin, 1881

Jolya arata (W.R. Dunker, 1857)

Jolya elongata (W. Swainson, 1821)

Jolya letourneuxi J.R. Bourguignat, 1877
+ Modiola stultorum Jousseaume, 1893
+ Modiola plicata Reeve, 1857

Jolya martorelli (J.G. Hidalgo, 1878)

Jolya rhomboidea (L.A. Reeve, 1857)

Limnoperna depressa Brandt & Temcharoen, 1971 = Limnoperna fortunei

Limnoperna fortunei (W.R. Dunker, 1857)
+ Dreissena siamensis Morelet, 1866

Limnoperna inconstans (W.R. Dunker, 1857)

Limnoperna mangle (K.W. Ockelmann, 1983)

Limnoperna pulex (Lamarck, 1819)

Limnoperna securis (Lamarck, 1819)

Limnoperna supoti Brandt, 1974 = Limnoperna fortunei

Monodacna caspia (E. Eichwald, 1829)

Monodacna colorata (E. Eichwald, 1829)

Monodacna pseudocardium (G.P. Deshayes, 1838) = Monodacna caspia

Mytella bicolor (J.G. Bruguière, 1792) = Mytella guyanensis
+ Modiola guyanensis Lamarck, 1819

Mytella brasiliensis (Gray, 1825) = Mytella guyanensis

Mytella charruana (A.D. d’Orbigny, 1842)

Mytella speciosa (L.A. Reeve, 1857)

Mytilaster lineatus (J.F. Gmelin, 1791)

Mytilaster marioni (E.A.A. Locard, 1889)

Mytilaster minimus (G.S. Poli, 1795)

Mytilopsis adamsi J.P.E. Morrison, 1946
+ Mytilopsis allyneana Hertlein & Hanna, 1949
+ Mytilus perviridis Holten, 1802

Mytilopsis africana (P.J. van Beneden, 1835)

Mytilopsis lacustris = Mytilopsis africana

Mytilopsis leucophaeata (T.A. Conrad, 1831)

Mytilopsis ornata (P.M.A. Morelet, 1885) = Mytilopsis africana
+ Dreissensia holmi d’Ailly, 1896
+ Dreissensia bananaensis Preston, 1909

Mytilopsis sallei (C.A. Récluz, 1849)

Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758

Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

Neotrigonia bednalli (Verco, 1907)
+ Neotrigonia horia Cotton, 1953
+ Trigonia dubia Sowerby, 1884

Neotrigonia gemma Iredale, 1924
+ Trigonia lamarckii var. reticulata Tenison-Woods, 1878

Neotrigonia kaiyomaruae Habe & Nomoto, 1976

Neotrigonia lamarckii (J.E. Gray, 1838)

Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804)
+ Trigonia nobilis A. Adams, 1854

Neotrigonia strangei

Neotrigonia uniophora (Gray in Jukes, 1847)
+ Trigonia jukesii A. Adams, 1849
+ Trigonia uniophora var. crebrisculpta Odhner, 1917

Novaculina gangetica W.H. Benson, 1830

Panamicorbula ventricosa (Adams & Reeve, 1850)

Pharus legumen (Linnaeus, 1758)

Potamocorbula abbreviata (Preston, 1907)

Potamocorbula adamsi (Tryon)

Potamocorbula adusta (L.A. Reeve, 1844)
+ Corbula assiniensis Chaper, 1885
+ Corbula procera Reeve, 1844
+ Corbula trigona Hinds, 1843
+ Azara afra Boettger, 1885

Potamocorbula amurensis (L.I. von Schrenck, 1861)

Potamocorbula chilkaensis

Potamocorbula fasciata (L.A. Reeve, 1843)
+ Corbula faba Hinds, 1843

Potamocorbula laevis

Potamocorbula nimbosa (S.C.T. Hanley, 1843)
+ Corbula labiata Reeve, 1844
+ Corbula ustulata Reeve, 1844

Potamocorbula rubromuscula Zhuang & Cai

Profischeria centralis (Germain, 1904)

Profischeria congo (Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927)

Profischeria curta
+ Fischeria tumida Martens, 1877

Profischeria delessertii (A.C. Bernardi, 1860)
+ Fischeria messageri Preston, 1909
+ Fischeria approximans Preston, 1909

Profischeria truncata (Martens, 1877)

Scaphula celox

Scaphula deltae W.T. Blanford, 1867

Scaphula minuta Ghosh, 1922

Scaphula nagarjunai Janaki et al., 1984

Scaphula pinna W.H. Benson, 1856

Septifer bilocularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sinomytilus harmandi (A.T. de Rochebrune, 1881)

Sinomytilus morrisoni Brandt, 1974

Sinomytilus swinhoei (H. Adams)

Solen (Ensisolen) delesserti Sowerby II, 1874 = Neosolen aquaedulcioris

Solen (Ensisolen) krusensterni L.I. von Schrenck, 1867 = Solen krusensterni

Solen (s.s.) fonesii W.R. Dunker, 1862

Tanysiphon rivalis W.H. Benson, 1858