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Publication Ortmann (1919): summary

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Full Citation

Ortmann, A.E. 1919. A monograph of the naiades of Pennsylvania. Part III: Systematic account of the genera and species. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 8(1): xvi -385 + 21 plates. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio obliquus Lapham, 1860 = Pleurobema sintoxia

‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Lapham, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 156.
Baker, 1905. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 15: 256.
Ortmann, 1919. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8(1): 73. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Anodonta ohiensis Utterback, 1915 = Utterbackia imbecillis

‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(6): 260, pl. 23, figs. 74a-b.
Ortmann, 1919. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8(1): 162, pl. 11, fig. 4.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 832 [1267].
Modell, 1945. Jena. Z. Med. Naturw. 78: 84.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta (Lastena) ohiensis Rafinesque, 1820)

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Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata susquehannae Ortmann, 1919 = Alasmidonta marginata

Ortmann, 1919. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8(1): 187, pl. 12, fig. 4.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE CM_61.4679 (by Parodiz, 1967: 26), Susquehanna River, Selins Grove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

Taxonomic Opinions

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia flava parvula Grier, 1918 = Fusconaia flava

Fusconaia flava trigona (Lea, 1831) = Fusconaia flava

Fusconaia subrotunda (Lea, 1831)

Fusconaia subrotunda kirtlandiana (Lea, 1834) = Fusconaia subrotunda

Margaritana margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) = Margaritifera margaritifera

 
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