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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema

species Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1861): synonymy
     3 specimens + 132 Genbank vouchers

Unio riddellii Lea, 1861
Lea, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 392.
Lea, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 9]: 198 [20], pl. 27, fig. 267.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84635, Dallas, Texas.

Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) riddelliiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pleurobema riddelliOrtmann (1912), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Vidrine (1993), Haag (2012)
Quadrula (Obliquata) ridellii [sic]Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Pleurobema riddelliiHowells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Johnson et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) riddelliiCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012)
Pleurobema ridelli [sic]Pfeiffer et al. (2016)

Unio friersoni B.H. Wright, 1896
B.H. Wright, 1896. Nautilus 9(12): 134, pl. 33.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_133432 (by R.I. Johnson, 1967: 6), Little Red River, arm of Bayou Pierre, DeSoto Parrish, La.

Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) friersoniSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pleurobema friersoniOrtmann (1914)
Quadrula (Obliquata) friersoniFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Fusconaia undataR.I. Johnson (1980)
Pleurobema riddelliVidrine (1993)
Pleurobema riddelliiHowells et al. (1996)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) riddelliiBurlakova et al. (2012)

Unio ridellii Frierson, 1927
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 54.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 300.
Pfeiffer et al., 2016. Conserv. Genet. 17(2): [3].
(error for Unio riddellii Lea, 1861)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) riddelliiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) friersoniSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pleurobema riddelliOrtmann (1912), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Vidrine (1993), Haag (2012)
Pleurobema friersoniOrtmann (1914)
Quadrula (Obliquata) ridellii [sic]Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Quadrula (Obliquata) friersoniFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Fusconaia undataR.I. Johnson (1980)
Pleurobema riddelliiHowells et al. (1996), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Lopes-Lima et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Johnson et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) riddelliiCampbell & Lydeard (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012)
Pleurobema ridelli [sic]Pfeiffer et al. (2016)

 
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