Publication Perkins et al. (2025): summary

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Full Citation

Perkins, M.A., K.L. DeVilbiss, N.W. Whelan, R.A. Hoch, B.K. Jones et al. 2025. A new endemic freshwater mussel (Bivalvia, Unionidae) genus and species, Ligodonta obscura, from the Yadkin-Pee Dee River drainage in North Carolina, USA. ZooKeys 1248: 245-265. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Ligodonta Perkins et al., 2025

Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: 252.
Type species: Ligodonta obscura Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025 (orig. desig.) = Ligodonta obscura

Microdonta Perkins et al., 2025

Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: supplemental figures. [nomen nudum]
(intro'd as syn. of Ligodonta Perkins et al., 2025)

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta arcaeformis ‘Heude’ of Authors = Sinanodonta lauta

‘Heude’ of Authors.
Soroka, 2010. Folia Malac. 18(4): 178.
Zhang et al., 2013. World Sci. Tech.-Mod. Traditional Chinese Med. 15(3): 376.
Sayenko et al., 2017. Biol. Bulletin 44(3): 367 [as ‘Anemina arcaeformis’].
Whelan et al., 2023. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 198(2): Table S1. [in part]
Galal-Khallaf et al., 2024. Egypt. J. Zool. 81: 22.
Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Anodon arcaeformis Heude, 1877)

Ligodonta obscura Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025 = Ligodonta obscura

Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan in Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: 253, figs. 3-8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) NCSM_221198, Little River adjacent to NC 134 [North Carolina].

Alasmidonta triangulata ‘Lea’ of Authors = Alasmidonta arcula

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Margaritana triangulata Lea, 1858)

Alasmidonta undulata ‘Say’ of Authors = Alasmidonta varicosa

‘Say’ of Authors.
Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio undulata Say, 1817)

Strophitus undulatus ‘Say’ of Authors = Strophitus howellsi

‘Say’ of Authors.
Smith et al., 2018. MPE 119: 51. [in part]
Gasparini et al., 2020. Environmental DNA 2(3): Table S1.
Whelan et al., 2023. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 198(2): Table S1. [in part]
Perkins et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1248: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Anodonta undulata Say, 1817)

Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmidonta arcula

Alasmidonta heterodon = Prolasmidonta heterodon

Alasmidonta marginata

Alasmidonta raveneliana

Alasmidonta triangulata

There are 60 species taxonomic opinions attributed to this publication.

Ligodonta obscura Perkins, DeVilbiss & Whelan, 2025, sp. nov.