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Publication McMurray et al. (2012): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

McMurray, S.E., J.S. Faiman, A. Roberts, B. Simmons & M.C. Barnhart. 2012. A Guide to Missouri’s Freshwater Mussels. 94 pp.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio texasensis Lea, 1860
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 8]: 359.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 59.
B.H. Wright, 1888. Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [5].
Pilsbry & Rhoads, 1896. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 48: 505.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 563.
Ortmann, 1915. Nautilus 28(12): 141.
Utterback, 1916. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(9): 398.
Gordon et al., 1979. Bull. AMU (1979): 35, Table 3.
Cummings & Mayer, 1992. Freshw. Mussels Midwest (5): 134.
Vidrine, 1993. Histr. Distr. Freshw. Mussels LA: 169.
R.I. Johnson, 1999. Occ. Pap. Moll. 6(77): 34.
Bogan, 2010. FADA: [web].
ITIS, 2012. ITIS: [web].
Haag, 2012. N. Amer. Freshw. Mussels: 70 [as ‘Toxolasma texasensis’].
McMurray et al., 2012. Mo. Freshw. Mussels: 57 [as ‘Toxolasma texasense’].
Marshall et al., 2018. Amer. Malac. Bull. 36(1): 44.
(error for Unio texasiensis Lea, 1857)

Taxonomic Opinions

Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819) = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818

Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) = Pressodonta viridis

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Anodonta suborbiculata Say, 1831 = Utterbackiana suborbiculata

Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea, 1834)

Arcidens confragosus (Say, 1829)

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Cyprogenia aberti (Conrad, 1850)

Ellipsaria lineolata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Eurynia dilatata

Epioblasma florentina curtisii (Frierson and Utterback, 1916) = Epioblasma curtisii

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia ebena (Lea, 1831) = Reginaia ebenus

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia ozarkensis (Call, 1887)

Lampsilis abrupta (Say, 1831)

Lampsilis brittsi (Simpson, 1900)

Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Lampsilis higginsii (Lea, 1857)

Lampsilis rafinesqueana Frierson, 1927

Lampsilis reeveiana (Lea, 1852)

Lampsilis siliquoidea (Barnes, 1823)

Lampsilis teres (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lasmigona complanata complanata (Barnes, 1823) = Lasmigona complanata

Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus fragilis

Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820) = Potamilus leptodon

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Ligumia subrostrata (Say, 1831) = Sagittunio subrostratus

Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)

Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820

Obovaria jacksoniana (Frierson, 1912) = Obovaria arkansasensis

Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)

Plectomerus dombeyanus (Valenciennes, 1827)

Plethobasus cyphyus (Rafinesque, 1820)

Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820)

Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)

Potamilus capax (Green, 1832)

Potamilus ohiensis (Rafinesque, 1820)

Potamilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819)

Ptychobranchus occidentalis (Conrad, 1836)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica (Say, 1817) = Theliderma cylindrica

Quadrula fragosa (Conrad, 1835)

Quadrula metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820) = Theliderma metanevra

Quadrula nodulata (Rafinesque, 1820) = Pustulosa nodulata

Quadrula pustulosa (Lea, 1831) = Pustulosa pustulosa

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Simpsonaias ambigua (Say, 1825)

Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)

Toxolasma lividum Rafinesque, 1831

Toxolasma parvum (Barnes, 1823)

Toxolasma texasense [sic] (Lea, 1857) = Toxolasma texasiense

Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Quadrula verrucosa

Truncilla donaciformis (Lea, 1828)

Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820

Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831)

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Conrad, 1836)

Venustaconcha pleasii (Marsh, 1891)

Villosa iris (Lea, 1829) = Cambarunio iris

Villosa lienosa (Conrad, 1834) = Leaunio lienosus

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