MUSSELpdb | publication Mighels & Adams, 1842

	Home \| About \| Database \| Mussel of the Month \| Publications & Presentations


MUSSELpdb
	Introduction Browse d'basing


Taxonomy
	all genera Unionidae Margaritiferidae Hyriidae Etheriidae Mycetopodidae Iridinidae Species & Genus Richness by Taxonomy


Geography
	Summary North America Central America South America Afrotropics North Eurasia East Asia Australasia Species Richness & Endemism by Geography

Page last updated
Thu 3 September 2025

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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Search the database pages:

Publication Mighels & Adams (1842): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Mighels, J.W. & C.B. Adams. 1842. Descriptions of twenty-five new species of New England shells. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 1: 48-50. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyclas minor Mighels & Adams, 1842
Adams in Mighels & Adams, 1842. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1: 48.
(renamed Pisidium minus Stimpson, 1851)

Cyclas nitida Mighels & Adams, 1842
Mighels in Mighels & Adams, 1842. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1: 39.
(renamed Pisidium adamsii Stimpson, 1851; homonym of Pisidium nitidum Jenyns, 1832)

"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."
	The MUSSEL Project — Home Page https://musselpdb.org/. Site developed and maintained by Dan Graf & Kevin Cummings. Funded by The National Science Foundation.