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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Fusconaia species Fusconaia subrotunda (Lea, 1831): synonymy 8 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher Obliquaria (Rotundaria) subrotunda var. maculata Rafinesque, 1820 Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 308. Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 52. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Obliquaria (Rotundaria) subrotunda Rafinesque, 1820)
Fusconaia subrotunda — Williams et al. (2008), IUCN (2012) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) | |
Unio brevialis Crouch, 1827 ‘Lamarck’ Crouch, 1827. Illustr. Lamarck’s Conch.: 16, pl. 9, fig. 3. (misidentified reference to Unio brevialis Lamarck, 1819)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) subrotunda — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998) | |
Unio subrotundus Lea, 1831
 Lea, 1831. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 4 [O. 1]: 117 [127], pl. 18, fig. 45. Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85832, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) subrotunda — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula subrotunda — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910) Fusconaia subrotundus — Ortmann (1912), Turgeon et al. (1998) Unio subrotundus — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935) Quadrula sintoxia — Vanatta (1915) Fusconaia subrotunda — Ortmann (1919), Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Haas (1969), Burch (1975), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Schilling et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026) Fusconaia subtrotunda [sic] — Ortmann (1925) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) subrotunda — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia polita — Morrison (1969) Fusconaia ebena — Oesch (1984) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009), ITIS (2012) | |
Unio kirtlandianus Lea, 1834
 Lea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 98 [210], pl. 14, fig. 41. Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85815, Mahoning R., Ohio.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1909) Quadrula subrotunda kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1909) Quadrula subrotunda var. kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1910) Fusconaia subrotundus — Ortmann (1912) Fusconaia subrotunda kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1919) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) kirtlandiana — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia kirtlandiana — Haas (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) Fusconaia subrotunda kirklandiana [sic] — ITIS (2012) | |
Unio personatus Conrad, 1834 ‘Say’ Conrad, 1834. New Fresh-Water Shells: 71. (misidentified reference to Unio personatus Say, 1829)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) subrotunda — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) | |
Unio politus Conrad, 1837 Say, 1834. Amer. Conch. 6: ??. [nomen nudum] Conrad, 1837. Monogr. Fam. Unionidae 1(8): 67, pl. 37, fig. 2.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) subrotunda — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) — de Gregorio (1914) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) subrotunda — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia subrotunda — Haas (1969), Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998) Fusconaia polita — Morrison (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) | |
Unio kirklandianus Lea, 1838 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Lea, 1838. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 23. Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 203. ITIS, 2012. ITIS: [web]. (error for Unio kirtlandianus Lea, 1834)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia subrotunda — Parmalee & Bogan (1998) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) | |
Unio lesueurianus Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 286.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 195 [33], pl. 8, fig. 6. Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85803, Holston R., Tenn.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) pilaris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia pilaris lesueuriana — Ortmann (1918) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia pilaris — Haas (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) Fusconaia subrotunda lesueuriana — Watters et al. (2009) Fusconaia subrotunda lesueriana [sic] — ITIS (2012) | |
Unio pilaris Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 285.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 209 [47], pl. 14, fig. 24. Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85817, French Broad R., Tenn.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) pilaris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia pilaris — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) Fusconaia subrotunda pilaris — ITIS (2012) | |
Unio leseurianus Conrad, 1853 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 251. Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 56. (error for Unio lesueurianus Lea, 1840) | |
Unio subrotundoides Lea, 1868 Lea, 1868. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 20: 163.
Unio subrotundus — Henderson (1935) | |
Unio globatus Lea, 1871
Lea, 1871. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 23: 191. Lea, 1874. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8 [O. 13]: 5 [9], pl. 1, fig. 1. Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_85820, Holston R., Tenn.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) globata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia pilaris — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Unio ebenus Call, 1894 Call, 1894. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1893(3): ??. (misidentified reference to Unio ebenus Lea, 1831)
Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) subrotunda — Frierson (1927) | |
Unio bursapastoris B.H. Wright, 1896
B.H. Wright, 1896. Nautilus 9(12): 133, pl. 3, fig. 2 [as ‘bursa-pastoris’]. Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_133427, Clinch R., Lee Co., Va.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) bursa-pastoris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaja [sic] bursa-pastoris — Ortmann (1913) Fusconaia pilaris bursa-pastoris — Ortmann (1918) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) bursa-pastoris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia bursapastoris — Haas (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Quadrula flexuosa Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 52: 83, pl. 2, fig. 8. Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 790. Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 887.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) flexuosa — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula flexuosa — Simpson (1900) Fusconaia pilaris lesueuriana — Ortmann (1918) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia pilaris — Haas (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana var. minor Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 791. Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 892. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio kirtlandianus Lea, 1834) Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_150155, Scott Co., Va.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana var. minor — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Fusconaia subrotunda — R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Quadrula andrewsii Marsh, 1902 Marsh, 1902. Nautilus 15(10): 115. Marsh, 1902. Nautilus 16: 8, pl. 1, two upper figs. [as andrewsæ].
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) andrewsii — Simpson (1914) Fusconaia pilaris — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Quadrula beauchampii Marsh, 1902 Marsh, 1902. Nautilus 16: 7, pl. 1, lower two figs.
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) beauchampii — Simpson (1914) Fusconaia pilaris — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Fusconaja [sic] subrotunda leucogona Ortmann, 1913
Ortmann, 1913. Nautilus 27(8): 89. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio subrotundus Lea, 1831) Type(s): LECTOTYPE CM_61.5239 (by R.I. Johnson, 1977: 238), Elk River, Gassaway, Braxton County, West Virginia.
Fusconaja [sic] subrotunda leucogona — Ortmann (1913) Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009) | |
Unio kirtlandicus Ferussac, 1835 ‘Lea’ Ferussac, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(59-60): 29. (error for Unio kirtlandianus Lea, 1834) | |
Quadrula andrewsae Marsh, 1902 Marsh, 1902. Nautilus 16: 8, pl. 1, upper figs. (error for Quadrula andrewsii Marsh, 1902)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) andrewsii — Simpson (1914) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia pilaris — Haas (1969) Fusconaia subrotunda — Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008) | |
Fusconaia subtrotunda Ortmann, 1925 ‘Lea’ Ortmann, 1925. Amer. Midl. Nat. 9: 328. (error for Unio subrotundus Lea, 1831)
Fusconaia subrotunda — Burch (1975) | |
Fusconaia subrotunda lesueriana ITIS, 2012 ‘Lea’ ITIS, 2012. ITIS: [web]. (error for Unio lesueurianus Lea, 1840) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) subrotunda — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) pilaris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) globata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) bursa-pastoris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) flexuosa — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula flexuosa — Simpson (1900) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) kirtlandiana var. minor — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Quadrula subrotunda — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910) Quadrula kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1909) Quadrula subrotunda kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1909) Quadrula subrotunda var. kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1910) Fusconaia subrotundus — Ortmann (1912), Turgeon et al. (1998) Fusconaja [sic] bursa-pastoris — Ortmann (1913) Fusconaja [sic] subrotunda leucogona — Ortmann (1913) Unio subrotundus — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935) — de Gregorio (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) andrewsii — Simpson (1914) Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) beauchampii — Simpson (1914) Quadrula sintoxia — Vanatta (1915) Fusconaia pilaris lesueuriana — Ortmann (1918) Fusconaia pilaris — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969) Fusconaia pilaris bursa-pastoris — Ortmann (1918) Fusconaia subrotunda — Ortmann (1919), Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Haas (1969), Burch (1975), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Schilling et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026) Fusconaia subrotunda kirtlandiana — Ortmann (1919) Fusconaia subtrotunda [sic] — Ortmann (1925) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) subrotunda — Frierson (1927) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) kirtlandiana — Frierson (1927) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) pilaris — Frierson (1927) Quadrula (Fusconia [sic]) bursa-pastoris — Frierson (1927) Fusconaia polita — Morrison (1969) Fusconaia kirtlandiana — Haas (1969) Fusconaia bursapastoris — Haas (1969) Fusconaia ebena — Oesch (1984) Fusconaia subrotunda subrotunda — Watters et al. (2009), ITIS (2012) Fusconaia subrotunda lesueuriana — Watters et al. (2009) Fusconaia subrotunda kirklandiana [sic] — ITIS (2012) Fusconaia subrotunda lesueriana [sic] — ITIS (2012) Fusconaia subrotunda pilaris — ITIS (2012)
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