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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Walker (1918): summary
publication summary Complete CitationWalker, B. 1918. Notes on North American naides, I. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (49): 1-6. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal GeneraPlatynaias Walker, 1918
Walker, 1918. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (49): 2.
Ortmann & Walker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 33.
Type species: Symphynota compressa Lea, 1829 (orig. desig.) = Platynaias compressa Pterosygna Simpson, 1900
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 665.
Ortmann, 1909. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 5: 196.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 490.
Ortmann, 1914. Nautilus 28(4): 43.
Walker, 1918. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (49): 2.
F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 147.
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 326.
(error for Pterosyna Rafinesque, 1831) Taxonomic OpinionsCalceola calceolus (Lea) = Sulcularia viridis
+ Calceola angulata Swainson, 1840 Lastena lata (Raf.) = Hemistena lata
+ Unio dehiscens Say, 1829 Simpsoniconcha ambigua (Say) = Simpsonaias ambigua Unio complanatus Dillwyn, 1817 = Elliptio complanata
+ Unio violaceus Spengler, 1793
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