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

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Publication Utterback (1915): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Utterback, W.I. 1915. The naiades of Missouri. IV. American Midland Naturalist 4(6): 244-273. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta dakotana Utterback, 1915
‘Frierson’ Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(6): 265, pl. 24, figs. 77a-b.

Anodonta ohiensis Utterback, 1915
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(6): 260, pl. 23, figs. 74a-b.
Ortmann, 1919. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8(1): 162, pl. 11, fig. 4.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 832 [1267].
Modell, 1945. Jena. Z. Med. Naturw. 78: 84.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta (Lastena) ohiensis Rafinesque, 1820)

Uniomerus tetralasma comptodon Utterback, 1915
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(3): 48.
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(6): 247.
(error for Unio camptodon Say, 1832)

Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmidonta calceolus (Lea) = Pressodonta viridis
+ Margaritana deltoidea Lea, 1838

Alasmidonta marginata Say

Anodonta bealei Lea = Pyganodon grandis

Anodonta corpulenta Cooper = Pyganodon grandis

Anodonta danielsii Lea = Pyganodon grandis
+ Anodonta texasensis Lea, 1859

Anodonta grandis Say = Pyganodon grandis
+ Anodonta opaca Lea, 1852

Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea)

Arcidens confragosa (Say) = Arcidens confragosus

Lastena ohiensis (Rafinesque) = Potamilus ohiensis
+ Anodonta imbecillis Say, 1829

Lastena ohiensis (Rafinesque) = Utterbackia imbecillis

Lastena suborbiculata (Say) = Utterbackiana suborbiculata

Symphynota complanata (Barnes) = Lasmigona complanata

Symphynota costata (Rafinesque) = Lasmigona costata
+ Alasmodonta rugosa Barnes, 1823

Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say)
+ Unio declivis Conrad, 1836
+ Unio sayii Tappan, 1839

Uniomerus tetralasmus comptodon [sic] (Say) = Uniomerus tetralasmus
+ Unio geometricus Lea, 1834

Uniomerus tetralasmus comptodon [sic] (Say) = Uniomerus declivis

 
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