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Publication Serb (2006): summary
publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Serb, J.M. 2006. Discovery of genetically distinct sympatric lineages in the freshwater mussel Cyprogenia aberti (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 425-434. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Dromus dromus Simpson, 1900
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 615.
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 317.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N452.
Stansbery, 1970. Malacologia 10(1): 18.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1066.
Serb, 2006. J. Moll. Studies 72: 427.
(error for Unio dromas Lea, 1834)

Taxonomic Opinions

Cyprogenia aberti (Conrad, 1850)

Cyprogenia stegaria

Dromus dromus [sic] = Dromus dromas

Lampsilis ornata

Lampsilis siliquoidea

Obliquaria reflexa

Ptychobranchus fasciolaris

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