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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Margaritifera falcata
nominal species Alasmodon falcata Gould, 1850
Alasmodon falcata Gould, 1850 = Margaritifera falcata
Gould, 1850. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3: 294.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_5929A, Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.
Taxonomic Opinions
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Moorkens et al., 2026: 5.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 287.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Dai et al., 2025: Table 2.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Chen et al., 2025: Table S3.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — FMCS, 2025: [1].
= Margaritifera falcata — Chen et al., 2025: Table 1.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Hopper et al., 2023.
= Margaritifera falcata — Wu et al., 2023: Table 2.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Wu et al., 2022: Table S2.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Jeratthitikul et al., 2022: Table S1.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Pavan-Kumar et al., 2022: Table S1.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Hata et al., 2022: 2637.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 25.
= Margaritifera falcata — Zieritz et al., 2021: 1092.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — FMCS, 2021: [1].
= Margaritifera falcata — Wu et al., 2021: attached Table 2.
= Margaritifera falcata — Stewart et al., 2021: 453, Table 1.
= Margaritifera falcata — Wu et al., 2020: 195.
= Margaritifera falcata — Sano et al., 2020: 99.
= Margaritifera falcata — Preece et al., 2020: 3.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Wu et al., 2020: 54.
= Margaritifera falcata — Teiga-Teixeira et al., 2020: 2978.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Lor et al., 2020: 838.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Wu et al., 2019: 30.
= Margaritifera falcata — Lopes-Lima et al., 2019: [6].
= Margaritifera falcata — Froufe et al., 2019: 185.
= Margaritifera falcata — Gomes-dos-Santos et al., 2019: 1418.
= Margaritifera falcata — Lyubas et al., 2019: 14.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Vikhrev et al., 2019: 2, fig. 5, Table 3.
= Margaritifera falcata — Guerra et al., 2019: Table S1.
= Margaritifera falcata — Kano et al., 2019: 7.
= Margaritifera falcata — Vikhrev et al., 2018: 73, appendix 5.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Pfeiffer et al., 2018: [7].
= Margaritifera falcata — Huang et al., 2018: 302.
= Margaritifera falcata — Lopes-Lima et al., 2018: 103, Table 3.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Wu et al., 2018: 7.
= Margaritifera falcata — Chase et al., 2018: Table S2.
= Margaritifera falcata — Aunins et al., 2018: 1125.
= Margaritifera falcata — Cha et al., 2018: 946.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Bolotov et al., 2017: [16], Table S1.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Bolotov et al., 2017: Table S1.
= Margaritifera falcata — Guerra et al., 2017: 8.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Williams et al., 2017: 36.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Amaro et al., 2017: 743.
= Margaritifera falcata — Lopes-Lima et al., 2017: 250.
= Margaritifera falcata — Wen et al., 2017: 9.
= Margaritifera falcata — Zhou et al., 2016: 4616.
= Margaritifera (s.s.) falcata — Bolotov et al., 2016: 107, 111.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Araujo et al., 2016: 290.
= Margaritifera falcata — Mitchell et al., 2016: 5.
= Margaritifera falcata — Fonseca et al., 2016: 955.
= Margaritifera falcata — Feng et al., 2016: 445.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — IUCN, 2016: [web].
= Margaritifera falcata — Bolotov et al., 2015: 7.
= Margaritifera falcata — Takeuchi et al., 2015: 220.
= Margaritifera falcata — Inoue et al., 2013: 287.
= Margaritifera falcata — Mock et al., 2013: 6060.
= Margaritifera falcata — Huang et al., 2013: 5.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — ITIS, 2012: [web].
= Margaritifera falcata — Haag, 2012: 74.
= Margaritifera falcata — Breton et al., 2011: 1653.
= Margaritifera falcata Gould, 1850 — Bogan, 2010: [20].
= Margaritifera falcata — Hoy et al., 2010: 191.
= Margaritifera falcata — Cummings & Graf, 2010: 375, 376.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Araujo et al., 2009: 95.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Chong et al., 2009: 995.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 312.
= Margaritifera falcata — Walker et al., 2006: 271.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Gustafson & Iwamoto, 2005: 233.
= Margaritifera falcata — Huff et al., 2004: 381.
= Margaritanopsis falcata (Gould, 1850) — D.G. Smith, 2001: 41, 42.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Turgeon et al., 1998: 32.
= Margaritifera falcata — Rosenberg et al., 1997: 303.
= Margaritifera falcata — Lydeard et al., 1996: 1595.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Hoeh et al., 1995: 25.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Ziuganov et al., 1994: 60.
= Margaritifera falcata — Rosenberg et al., 1994: 112.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Williams et al., 1993: 10.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Turgeon et al., 1988: 31.
= Margaritifera falcata — Kat, 1983: 299, fig. 1E.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Davis & Fuller, 1981: 219.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — R.I. Johnson, 1980: 99, List 4, sp. a; Table 2.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Burch, 1975: 8.
= Margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Heard & Guckert, 1970: 338.
+ Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Haas, 1969: 11.
= Margaritifera margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Henderson, 1935: 68.
+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Frierson, 1927: 24.
+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Simpson, 1914: 516.
= Margaritana margaritifera falcata (Gould) — Ortmann, 1913: 89.
= Margaritana margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850) — Hannibal, 1912: 122.
+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus) — Preston, 1912: 286.
+ Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) — Simpson, 1900: 677.
+ Margaron (Margaritana) margaritifera (Lin.) — Lea, 1870: 69.
= Unio falcatus (Gould, 1850) — Sowerby, 1868: pl. 75, sp. 390.
+ Margaritana margaritifera Lea — Lea, 1856: 80.
= Margaritana falcata Gould — Conrad, 1853: 262.
+ Margaron (Margaritana) margaritifera (Lin.) — Lea, 1852: 44.
= Alasmodon falcata — Gould, 1850: 294.
