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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Toxolasma

species Toxolasma cylindrellus (Lea, 1868): synonymy
     1 specimen

Unio cylindrellus Lea, 1868
Lea, 1868. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 20: 144.
Lea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 308 [68], pl. 48, fig. 121.
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_85300, N Alabama.

Lampsilis (Carunculina) cylindrellusSimpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) glansCall (1900)
Lampsilis (Carunculina) cylindrellaSimpson (1914)
Toxolasma lividumOrtmann (1918)
Carunculina mœstaOrtmann & Walker (1922)
Carunculina cylindrellaOrtmann (1924), R.I. Johnson (1980)
Carunculina moesta cylindrellaOrtmann (1925)
Carunculina glans-cylindrellaFrierson (1927)
Carunculina glansHaas (1969)
Carunculina cylindrellusStansbery (1970)
Carunculina parvaBurch (1975)
Toxolasma cylindrellusTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Toxolasma cyllindrellus [sic]Lee (2006)
Toxolasma cylindrellumMolluscaBase (2024)

Unio glans Lewis, 1871
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lewis, 1871. Amer. J. Conch. 6: 218.
Pilsbry & Rhoads, 1896. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 48: 502.

Toxolasma lividumOrtmann (1918)

Toxolasma cyllindrellus Lee, 2006
Lee, 2006. Shell-O-Gram 47(5): 6.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (Carunculina) cylindrellusSimpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) glansCall (1900)
Lampsilis (Carunculina) cylindrellaSimpson (1914)
Toxolasma lividumOrtmann (1918)
Carunculina mœstaOrtmann & Walker (1922)
Carunculina cylindrellaOrtmann (1924), R.I. Johnson (1980)
Carunculina moesta cylindrellaOrtmann (1925)
Carunculina glans-cylindrellaFrierson (1927)
Carunculina glansHaas (1969)
Carunculina cylindrellusStansbery (1970)
Carunculina parvaBurch (1975)
Toxolasma cylindrellusTurgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Turgeon et al. (1998), Lydeard et al. (1999), ... Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Toxolasma cyllindrellus [sic]Lee (2006)
Toxolasma cylindrellumMolluscaBase (2024)

 
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