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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 genus Cyrtonaias Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy 4 Recent valid species (4 total species) Cyrtonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894 Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 556. (intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788) Type species: Unio berlandierii Lea, 1857 (orig. desig.) = Cyrtonaias tampicoensis Mesonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894 Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 556. (intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788) Type species: Unio explicatus Morelet, 1849 (orig. desig.) = Cyrtonaias explicata Cyrtonais Frierson, 1927 Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 84. (error for Cyrtonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Lampsilis (Proptera) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Unio (Lampsilis) — Martens (1900) Unio (Uniomerus) — Martens (1900) Unio (Elliptio) — Martens (1900) Lampsilis — Ihering (1901), Pilsbry (1904), Pilsbry (1910), R.I. Johnson (1998), Contreras-Arquieta (2000) Unio — de Gregorio (1914) Lampsilis (Cyrtonaias) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Proptera — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969) Lampsilis (sec. Mesonaias) — Thiele (1934) Lampsilis (sec. Cyrtonaias) — Thiele (1934) Lampsilis (Mesonaias) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Cyrtonaias — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025) Mesonaias — Contreras-Arquieta (2000) Potamilus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Czaja et al. (2023) Actinonaias — Watters et al. (2009)
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