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

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Publication Gordon et al. (1979): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Gordon, M.E., L.R. Kraemer & A.V. Brown. 1979. Unionacea of Arkansas: Historical review, checklist, and observations on distributional patterns. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union, Inc. (1979): 31-37.

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 carinata = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Actinonaias carinata gibba = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Actinonaias ellipsiformis = Venustaconcha ellipsiformis

Alasmidonta calceolus = Pressodonta viridis

Alasmidonta marginata

Amblema plicata

Anodonta grandis = Pyganodon grandis

Anodonta grandis corpulenta = Pyganodon grandis

Anodonta imbecillis = Utterbackia imbecillis

Anodonta suborbiculata = Utterbackiana suborbiculata

Anodontoides ferussacianus

Arcidens confragosus

Arkansia wheeleri = Arcidens wheeleri

Carunculina glans = Toxolasma lividum

Carunculina parva = Toxolasma parvum

Carunculina texasensis [sic] = Toxolasma texasiense

Cumberlandia monodonta

Cyclonaias tuberculata

Cyprogenia aberti

Dysnomia florentina = Epioblasma florentina

Dysnomia triquetra = Epioblasma triquetra

Dysnomia turgidula = Epioblasma turgidula

Elliptio crassidens

Elliptio dilatatus = Eurynia dilatata

Fusconaia ebena = Reginaia ebenus

Fusconaia f. undata = Fusconaia flava

Fusconaia flava

Fusconaia ozarkensis

Glebula rotundata

Lampsilis anodontoides = Lampsilis teres

Lampsilis higginsii

Lampsilis hydiana

Lampsilis orbiculata = Obovaria subrotunda

Lampsilis ovata ventricosa = Lampsilis cardium

Lampsilis radiata siliquoidea = Lampsilis siliquoidea

Lampsilis rafinesqueana

Lampsilis reeveiana

Lampsilis streckeri

Lasmigona complanata

Lasmigona costata

Leptodea fragilis = Potamilus fragilis

Leptodea laevissima = Potamilus ohiensis

Leptodea leptodon = Potamilus leptodon

Ligumia recta

Ligumia subrostrata = Sagittunio subrostratus

Megalonaias gigantea = Megalonaias nervosa

Obliquaria reflexa

Obovaria olivaria

Obovaria subrotunda

Plagiola lineolata = Ellipsaria lineolata

Plectomerus dombeyanus

Plethobasus cyphyus

Pleurobema clava

Pleurobema cordatum catillus = Pleurobema sintoxia

Pleurobema cordatum coccineum = Pleurobema sintoxia

Pleurobema cordatum plenum = Pleurobema plenum

Pleurobema cordatum pyramidatum = Pleurobema sintoxia

Proptera alata = Potamilus alatus

Proptera capax = Potamilus capax

Proptera purpurata = Potamilus purpuratus

Ptychobranchus occidentalis

Quadrula cylindrica = Theliderma cylindrica

Quadrula metanevra = Theliderma metanevra

Quadrula nodulata = Pustulosa nodulata

Quadrula pustulosa = Pustulosa pustulosa

Quadrula quadrula

Simpsoniconcha ambigua = Simpsonaias ambigua

Strophitus undulatus

Tritogonia verrucosa = Quadrula verrucosa

Truncilla donaciformis

Truncilla truncata

Uniomerus tetralasmus

Villosa arkansasensis = Obovaria arkansasensis

Villosa iris = Cambarunio iris

Villosa lienosa = Leaunio lienosus

 
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