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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina

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

Sulcularia Rafinesque, 1831
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 4.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 79.
Type species: Sulcularia badia Rafinesque, 1831 (sub. desig. by Frierson, 1914: 7) = Alasminota holstonia

Sulcataria Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 673.
(error for Sulcularia Rafinesque, 1831)

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)

AlasmidontaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Alasmidonta (Pressodonta)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Symphynota (Alasminota)Ortmann (1914)
Lasmigona (Sulcularia)Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969), 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)
LasmigonaMorrison (1969), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)

 
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