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

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genus Alasminota Ortmann, 1914: synonymy
     2 Recent valid species (2 total species)

Alasminota Ortmann, 1914
Ortmann, 1914. Nautilus 28(4): 41.
Ortmann & Walker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 33.
Ortmann, 1923. Nautilus 36(3): 83.
Ortmann, 1924. Amer. Midl. Nat. 9(1): 22.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Symphynota Lea, 1829)
Type species: Margaritana holstonia Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Alasminota holstonia

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Symphynota (Alasminota) — Ortmann (1914)
Alasmidonta — Simpson (1914)
Lasmigona (Sulcularia) — Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969)
Lasmigona (Alasminota) — Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1923), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Clarke (1985), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Alasmidonta (Sulcularia) — Frierson (1927)
Lasmigona (sec. Sulcularia) — Thiele (1934)
Lasmigona — Morrison (1969), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), ... FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025)
Alasminota — FMCS (2025), Gordon (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

 
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