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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Alasmidonta

species Alasmidonta varicosa (Lamarck, 1819): synonymy
     2 specimens

Unio cariosa Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 44, var. 2. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio cariosus Say, 1817)

Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginataSimpson (1900)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) varicosaSimpson (1914)

Unio varicosa Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, sp. 36.
Type(s): TYPE LOCALITY TYPE_LOCALITY_MP_002, la rivière de Schuglkill [Schuylkill], pres de Philadelphie [Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania].

Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginataSimpson (1900)
Alasmidonta marginata var. varicosaOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1910)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginata varicosaOrtmann (1909)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) varicosaSimpson (1914)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) varicosaOrtmann & Walker (1922), R.I. Johnson (1970), Clarke (1981), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Decurambis marginata-varicosaFrierson (1927)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginataHaas (1969)
Alasmidonta (s.s.) varicosaBurch (1975)
Alasmidonta varicosaR.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Strayer & Jirka (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024)

Alasmodon corrugata De Kay, 1843
De Kay, 1843. Zool. New York 5: 198, pl. 24, figs. 259.
Type(s): TYPE LOCALITY TYPE_LOCALITY_MP_003, Passaic River.

Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginataSimpson (1900)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) varicosaSimpson (1914)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) varicosaOrtmann & Walker (1922), R.I. Johnson (1970), Clarke (1981)
Decurambis marginataFrierson (1927)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginataHaas (1969)
Alasmidonta (s.s.) varicosaBurch (1975)
Alasmidonta marginataOesch (1984)
Alasmidonta varicosaStrayer & Jirka (1997)

Alasmodon marginata De Kay, 1843
De Kay, 1843. Zool. New York 5: 196, pl. 14, fig. 225.
(misidentified reference to Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818)

Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginataSimpson (1900)
Decurambis marginata-varicosaFrierson (1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginataSimpson (1900)
Alasmidonta marginata var. varicosaOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1910)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) marginata varicosaOrtmann (1909)
Alasmidonta (Rugifera) varicosaSimpson (1914)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) varicosaOrtmann & Walker (1922), R.I. Johnson (1970), Clarke (1981), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Decurambis marginata-varicosaFrierson (1927)
Decurambis marginataFrierson (1927)
Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginataHaas (1969)
Alasmidonta (s.s.) varicosaBurch (1975)
Alasmidonta varicosaR.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Strayer & Jirka (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024)
Alasmidonta marginataOesch (1984)

 
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