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

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Publication Hoeh et al. (2002): summary
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Complete Citation

Hoeh, W.R., A.E. Bogan, K.S. Cummings & S.I. Guttman. 2002. Evolutionary relationships among the higher taxa of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida): inferences on phylogeny and character evolution from analyses of DNA sequence data. Malacological Review 31/32(2): 123-141. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis Bogan & Hoeh, 2000
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Bogan & Hoeh, 2000. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 177: Table 1.
Hoeh et al., 2001. [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida: 260.
Hoeh et al., 2002. Malac. Review 31/32(2): 127.
Hoeh et al., 2002. Evolution 56(11): Table 1.
Roe & Hoeh, 2003. Mol. Syst. Phylogeo. Moll.: 110.
Campbell et al., 2005. Invert. Biol. 124(2): Appendix 1.
Zanatta & Murphy, 2006. MPE 41(1): Table 1.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): Table 2.
Chapman et al., 2008. Malacologia 50(1-2): 306, Table 1.
Chapman et al., 2008. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 11, Table 4.
Campbell et al., 2008. Molec. Ecol. Res. 8: Table 1.
Burlakova et al., 2012. Aquatic Biosystems 8(12): [suppl. 1].
Campbell & Lydeard, 2012. Amer. Malac. Bull. 30(1): Appendix 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2016. Conserv. Genet. 17(2): 281, Table 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 109, Table 2.
Smith et al., 2019. Systemat. Biodiv. 17(4): Table S1.
Burlakova et al., 2019. Malacologia 62(2): Table 1.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: Table 1.
Inoue et al., 2020. Zootaxa 4816(4): 460.
Smith et al., 2020. Cladistics 36: Table 1.
Freeman et al., 2025. Malacologia 67(1/2): 247, Table 2.
(misidentified reference to Unio tampicoensis Lea, 1838)

Taxonomic Opinions

Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927

Anodontites trigonus (Spix, 1827) = Anodontites trigona

Castalia stevensi (H.B. Baker, 1930)

Coelatura aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827)

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis (Lea, 1838) = Mesonaias tampicoensis

Diplodon deceptus Simpson, 1914 = Diplodon gratus

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Eurynia dilatata

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Glebula rotundata (Lamarck, 1819)

Gonidea angulata (Lea, 1838)

Hyridella menziesi (Gray, 1843) = Echyridella menziesii

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Lortiella sp. = Lortiella rugata

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Monocondylaea minuana d’Orbigny, 1835

Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)

Mutela rostrata (Rang, 1835)

Neotrigonia margaritacea (Lamarck, 1804)

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)

Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)

Toxolasma lividus (Rafinesque, 1831) = Toxolasma lividum

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio tumidus Retzius, 1788

Velesunio angasi (Sowerby, 1867)

 
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