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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Stimpson (1851): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Stimpson, W. 1851. Shells of New England; a revision of the synonymy of the testaceous mollusks of New England, with notes on their structure and their geographical and bathymetrical distribution, with figures of new species. 58 pp.+ 2 plates. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Eurynea Stimpson, 1851
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Stimpson, 1851. Shells of New England: 13.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 490.
Paetel, 1875. Fam. Gatt. Moll.: 79.
Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 142.
(error for Eurynia Rafinesque, 1820)

Attributed Nominal Species

Complanaria alasmodontina Stimpson, 1851
‘Barnes’ Stimpson, 1851. Shells of New England: 14.
(reference to Unio alasmodontina Lea, 1829)

Cyclas pellucida Stimpson, 1851
‘Prime’ Stimpson, 1851. Shells of New England: 16.
Prime, 1853. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4: 277.
(new name for Cyclas calyculata C.B. Adams, 1842)

Pisidium adamsii Stimpson, 1851
‘Prime, MS’ Stimpson, 1851. Shells of New England: 16.
Prime, 1852. Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6(3): 352, pl. 11, figs. 1-3.
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 63, fig. 63.
(new name for Cyclas nitida Mighels & Adams, 1842)

Pisidium minus Stimpson, 1851
Stimpson, 1851. Shells of New England: 16. [nomen nudum]

Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmidonta marginata Say

Anodonta benedictensis (Lea) = Pyganodon grandis

Anodonta fluviatilis (Dill.) = Pyganodon cataracta

Anodonta housatonica Linsley = Utterbackiana implicata

Anodonta implicata Say = Utterbackiana implicata

Anodonta marginata Say = Pyganodon cataracta

Anodonta subcylindracea Lea = Anodontoides ferussacianus

Complanaria alasmodontina (Barnes) = Platynaias compressa
+ Symphynota compressa Lea, 1829

Complanaria rugosa (Barnes) = Lasmigona costata

Eurynia nasuta (Say) = Sagittunio nasutus

Eurynia praelonga (Barnes) = Ligumia recta

Lampsilis cariosa (Say)

Lampsilis ochracea (Say) = Atlanticoncha ochracea

Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin)

Lampsilis siliquoidea (Barnes)

Lampsilis ventricosa (Barnes) = Lampsilis cardium

Margaritana arcuata (Barnes) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Metaptera alata (Say) = Potamilus alatus

Metaptera gracilis (Barnes) = Potamilus fragilis

Strophitus sculptilis (Say) = Alasmidonta undulata
+ Unio undulata Say, 1817

Strophitus undulatus (Say)

Unio complanatus (Soland.) = Elliptio complanata

 
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