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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Graf & Cummings (2006): summary publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationGraf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Palaeoheterodont diversity (Mollusca: Trigonioida + Unionoida): what we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 343-394. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesLasmigona compressa Graf & Ó Foighil, 2000 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Graf & Ó Foighil, 2000. J. Moll. Studies 66: 160. Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348. Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310. Jadhav & Jamkhedkar, 2009. Res. J. BioTech. 4(1): 43. Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506. Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 177. Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1. Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4. Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: Table 1. Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1. Jeratthitikul et al., 2022. Sci. Repts. 12: Table S1. Wu et al., 2023. ZooKeys 1166: 263, Table 1. Liu et al., 2023. ZooKeys 1179: Table 1. Dai et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(2): Table 1. [in part] (misidentified reference to Symphynota compressa Lea, 1829) | |
Lortiella froggattii Graf & Cummings, 2006 ‘Iredale’ of Authors. ‘Iredale’ Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 365. ‘Iredale’ Graf & Cummings, 2007. J. Moll. Studies 73: 313. Bogan, 2010. FADA: [20]. (error for Lortiella froggatti Iredale, 1934) | |
Pilsbryoconcha exilis Graf, 2002 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Graf, 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 66. Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 372. Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310. Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 177. [in part] (reference to Anodonta exilis Lea, 1838) | |
Pseudodon vondembuschianus Graf, 2002 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Graf, 2002. J. Moll. Studies 68: 66. Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348. Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310. Whelan et al., 2011. MPE 61: 506. [in part] Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): 310. [in part] Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part] Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 2’]. [in part] Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 207. [in part] Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part] Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part] Konopleva et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2’]. [in part] (reference to Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840) | |
Velesunio ambiguous Graf & Cummings, 2006 ‘Philippi’ Graf & Cummings, 2006. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 148: 348, table 2. ‘Philippi’ Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): [4]. (error for Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847) | |
Taxonomic OpinionsAcostaea rivolii (Deshayes, 1827) = Mulleria rivoli Actinonaias carinata (Barnes, 1823) = Ortmanniana ligamentina Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927 Anodontites trigonus (Spix, 1827) = Anodontites trigona Aspatharia chaiziana (Rang, 1835) Aspatharia rugifera (Dunker, 1858) Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) = Unio caffer Castalia ambigua (Lamarck, 1819) Castalia stevensi (Baker, H.B., 1930) Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848) Coelatura aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) Contradens contradens (Lea, 1838) = Lens contradens Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829) Diplodon chilensis (Gray, 1828) Diplodon rotundus (Spix & Wagner, 1827) = Diplodon gratus + Diplodon (Cyclomya s.s.) fontainianus var. deceptus Simpson, 1914 Diplodon rotundus (Spix & Wagner, 1827) Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Eurynia dilatata Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820) Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 Fusconaia ebena (Lea, 1831) = Reginaia ebenus Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820) Gonidea angulata (Lea, 1838) Hyridella australis (Lamarck, 1819) Hyridella depressa (Lamarck, 1819) Hyridella menziesi (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843) = Echyridella menziesii Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck, 1819) Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820 Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829) = Platynaias compressa Leila blainvilliana (Lea, 1834) Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) Lortiella froggattii [sic] Iredale, 1934 = Lortiella froggatti Lortiella rugata (Sowerby, 1868) Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) Monocondylaea minuana (d’Orbigny, 1835) Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791) Mutela rostrata (Rang, 1835) Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1927 Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804) Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 Parreysia olivarius (Lea, 1831) + Diplasma (Hemisolasma?) vitrea Rafinesque, 1831 Parreysia olivarius (Lea, 1831) = Indonaia olivaria Pilsbryoconcha exilis (Lea, 1838) Pleiodon ovata (Swainson, 1823) = Pleiodon ovatus Pleurobema coccineum (Lea, 1838) = Pleurobema sintoxia Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817 Pseudodon vondembuschianus (Lea, 1840) Pseudomulleria dalyi (Smith, E.A., 1898) Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820) Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820) Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Quadrula verrucosa Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) Velesunio ambiguous [sic] (Philippi, 1847) = Velesunio ambiguus Velesunio angasi (Sowerby, 1867) Villosa iris (Lea, 1829) = Cambarunio iris
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