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

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Publication Cummings & Mayer (1992): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Cummings, K.S. & C.A. Mayer. 1992. Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest. Illinois Natural History Survey Manual (5). 194 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio texasensis Lea, 1860
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 8]: 359.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 59.
B.H. Wright, 1888. Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [5].
Pilsbry & Rhoads, 1896. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 48: 505.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 563.
Ortmann, 1915. Nautilus 28(12): 141.
Utterback, 1916. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(9): 398.
Gordon et al., 1979. Bull. AMU (1979): 35, Table 3.
Cummings & Mayer, 1992. Freshw. Mussels Midwest (5): 134.
Vidrine, 1993. Histr. Distr. Freshw. Mussels LA: 169.
R.I. Johnson, 1999. Occ. Pap. Moll. 6(77): 34.
Bogan, 2010. FADA: [web].
ITIS, 2012. ITIS: [web].
Haag, 2012. N. Amer. Freshw. Mussels: 70 [as ‘Toxolasma texasensis’].
McMurray et al., 2012. Mo. Freshw. Mussels: 57 [as ‘Toxolasma texasense’].
Marshall et al., 2018. Amer. Malac. Bull. 36(1): 44.
(error for Unio texasiensis Lea, 1857)

Taxonomic Opinions

Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818

Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) = Pressodonta viridis

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodonta suborbiculata Say, 1831 = Utterbackiana suborbiculata

Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea, 1834)

Arcidens confragosus (Say, 1829)

Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774)

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)

Ellipsaria lineolata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Eurynia dilatata

Epioblasma flexuosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Epioblasma personata (Say, 1829)

Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857)

Epioblasma rangiana (Lea, 1839)

Epioblasma sampsonii (Lea, 1861)

Epioblasma torulosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia ebena (Lea, 1831) = Reginaia ebenus

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia subrotunda (Lea, 1831)

Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lampsilis abrupta (Say, 1831)

Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Lampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 1820

Lampsilis higginsii (Lea, 1857)

Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)

Lampsilis siliquoidea (Barnes, 1823)

Lampsilis teres (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)

Lasmigona compressa (Lea, 1829) = Platynaias compressa

Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus fragilis

Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus leptodon

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Ligumia subrostrata (Say, 1831) = Sagittunio subrostratus

Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820

Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)

Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)

Obovaria subrotunda (Rafinesque, 1820)

Plethobasus cicatricosus (Say, 1829)

Plethobasus cooperianus (Lea, 1834)

Plethobasus cyphyus (Rafinesque, 1820)

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)

Pleurobema coccineum (Conrad, 1836) = Pleurobema sintoxia

Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)

Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840)

Pleurobema rubrum (Rafinesque, 1820) = Pleurobema sintoxia

Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)

Potamilus capax (Green, 1832)

Potamilus ohiensis (Rafinesque, 1820)

Potamilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819)

Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula cylindrica (Say, 1817) = Theliderma cylindrica

Quadrula fragosa (Conrad, 1835)

Quadrula metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820) = Theliderma metanevra

Quadrula nodulata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Pustulosa nodulata

Quadrula pustulosa (Lea, 1831) = Pustulosa pustulosa

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Simpsonaias ambigua (Say, 1825)

Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)

Toxolasma lividus (Rafinesque, 1831) = Toxolasma lividum

Toxolasma parvus (Barnes, 1823) = Toxolasma parvum

Toxolasma texasensis [sic] (Lea, 1857) = Toxolasma texasiense

Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Quadrula verrucosa

Truncilla donaciformis (Lea, 1828)

Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820

Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831)

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Conrad, 1836)

Villosa fabalis (Lea, 1831) = Paetulunio fabalis

Villosa iris (Lea, 1829) = Cambarunio iris

Villosa lienosa (Conrad, 1834) = Leaunio lienosus

 
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