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

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Publication Vidrine (1993): summary
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Complete Citation

Vidrine, M.F. 1993. The Historical Distributions of Freshwater Mussels in Louisiana. 255 pp., 20 pl.

Attributed Nominal Species

Quadrula lachrymosa Swainson, 1840
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 378.
Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 177.
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 256.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 497.
Reeve, 1864. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 9, sp. 33.
Call, 1895. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 7: 21.
F.C. Baker, 1898. Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci. 3(1): 83, pl. 25, fig. 1; pl. 12, fig. 2.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 776.
Call, 1900. Ind. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. (1899): 489.
Ortmann, 1909. Nautilus 22(10): 100.
Ortmann, 1909. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 5: 199.
Ortmann, 1910. Nautilus 23(11): 140.
Ortmann, 1910. Nautilus 23: 116.
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 253.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 839, 841.
Vanatta, 1915. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 67: 556.
Ortmann & Walker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 14, 16.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 47.
F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 84.
R.I. Johnson, 1980. Bull. MCZ 149(2): 90.
Vidrine, 1993. Histr. Distr. Freshw. Mussels LA: 53.
Strayer & Jirka, 1997. Pearly Mussels NY (26): 98.
(error for Unio lacrymosus Lea, 1828)

Quadrula (Fusconia [sic] beadleana Frierson, 1927
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 57.
Vidrine, 1993. Histr. Distr. Freshw. Mussels LA: 63 [as ‘Pleurobema beadleanum’].
Burdick & White, 2007. J. Moll. Studies 73: 370 [as ‘Pleurobema beadleanum’].
Haag, 2012. N. Amer. Freshw. Mussels: 71 [as ‘Pleurobema beadleanum’].
(error for Unio beadleianus Lea, 1861)

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)

Uniomerus declivus Williams et al., 1993
‘Say’ of Authors.
Williams et al., 1993. Fisheries 18(9): 14.
Vidrine, 1993. Histr. Distr. Freshw. Mussels LA: 86.
Campbell et al., 2005. Invert. Biol. 124(2): 155.
Inoue et al., 2018. Invert. Syst. 32: Table S2.
Burlakova et al., 2019. Malacologia 62(2): 351.
(error for Unio declivis Say, 1831)

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