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Publication Ortmann (1918): summary

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Ortmann, A.E. 1918. The nayades (freshwater mussels) of the Upper Tennessee drainage, with notes on synonymy and distribution. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 57(6): 521-626. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Rotundaria Agassiz, 1852

‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 48.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 765.
Ortmann, 1909. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 5: 201.
Ortmann, 1910. Nautilus 23(11): 140.
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 257.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 811.
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(4): 149.
Ortmann, 1918. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 57(6): 543.
Haas, 1929. Senckenbergiana 11: 333.
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 319.
(reference to Rotundaria Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820 = Cyclonaias tuberculata

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Fusconaia cor var. analoga Ortmann, 1918 = Fusconaia cor

‘Lea’ Reeve, 1864. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 15, sp. 65 [as ‘Unio edgarianus’].
Ortmann, 1918. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 57(6): 533.
Ortmann, 1924. Amer. Midl. Nat. 9(1): 43.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio cor Conrad, 1834)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE CM_61.6326, Clinch River, Speer’s Ferry, Scott Co., Virginia.

Unio (Hyridella) muehlfeldtianus Adams & Adams, 1857 = Cambarunio dactylus

‘Lea’ Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 494 [as ‘mühlfeldtianus’].
Ortmann, 1918. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 57(6): 577.
(error for Unio muhlfeldianus Lea, 1838)

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