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Publication Williams et al. (2008): summary

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Williams, J.D., A.E. Bogan & J.T. Garner. 2008. Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. 908 pp.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Euanodonata Williams et al., 2008

Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 136.
(error for Euanodonta Westerlund, 1890)
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea

Leucosilla Scudder, 1882

‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Scudder, 1882. Nomen. Zool., Suppl.: 187. [nomen nudum]
Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 2: N862.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 102.
(error for Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831)
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 = Novaculina gangetica

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta arkansasensis B.H. Wright, 1888 = Strophitus undulatus

‘Lea’ of Authors.
B.H. Wright, 1888. Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [6].
Call, 1895. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 7: 60.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 617.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 347.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 709.
Watters et al., 2009. Freshw. Mussels OH: 294.
(error for Anodonta arkansensis Lea, 1852)

Epioblasma capsaeformis Jones et al., 2006 = Epioblasma ahlstedti

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Jones et al., 2006. J. Moll. Studies 72: 269.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 288.
(misidentified reference to Unio capsaeformis Lea, 1834)

Unio elegans var. elagantopsis Williams et al., 2008 = Truncilla truncata

‘de Gregorio’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 739.
(error for Unio elegans var. elegantopsis de Gregorio, 1914)

Unio triangularis var. longisculus Parmalee & Bogan, 1998 = Epioblasma triquetra

‘de Gregorio’ Parmalee & Bogan, 1998. The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee: 108.
‘de Gregorio’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 283.
(error for Unio triangularis var. longiusculus de Gregorio, 1914)

Unio pectitis Williams et al., 2008 = Epioblasma obliquata

‘Conrad’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 258.
(error for Unio pectitus Conrad, 1854)

Unio plantus Williams et al., 2008 = Potamilus fragilis

‘Barnes’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 419.
(error for Unio planus Barnes, 1823)

Unio propecaelatus Parmalee & Bogan, 1998 = Pegias fabula

‘de Gregorio’ Parmalee & Bogan, 1998. The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee: 169.
‘de Gregorio’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 483.
(error for Unio propecoelatus de Gregorio, 1914)

Unio subteritus [sic] var. purcheornatus Parmalee & Bogan, 1998 = Ptychobranchus subtentus

‘de Gregorio’ Parmalee & Bogan, 1998. The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee: 204.
‘de Gregorio’ Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 629.
(error for Unio subteritus [sic] var. purchreornatus de Gregorio, 1914)

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