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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Pfeiffer et al. (2016): summary publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationPfeiffer, J.M., N.A. Johnson, C.R. Randklev, R.G. Howells & J.D. Williams. 2016. Generic reclassification and species boundaries in the rediscovered freshwater mussel ‘Quadrula’ mitchelli (Simpson in Dall, 1896). Conservation Genetics 17(2): 279-292. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesCyrtonaias tampicoensis Bogan & Hoeh, 2000 ‘Lea’ of Authors. Bogan & Hoeh, 2000. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 177: Table 1. Hoeh et al., 2001. [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida: 260. Hoeh et al., 2002. Malac. Review 31/32(2): 127. Hoeh et al., 2002. Evolution 56(11): Table 1. Roe & Hoeh, 2003. Mol. Syst. Phylogeo. Moll.: 110. Campbell et al., 2005. Invert. Biol. 124(2): Appendix 1. Zanatta & Murphy, 2006. MPE 41(1): Table 1. Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): Table 2. Chapman et al., 2008. Malacologia 50(1-2): 306, Table 1. Chapman et al., 2008. BMC Evol. Biol. 8: 11, Table 4. Campbell et al., 2008. Molec. Ecol. Res. 8: Table 1. Burlakova et al., 2012. Aquatic Biosystems 8(12): [suppl. 1]. Campbell & Lydeard, 2012. Amer. Malac. Bull. 30(1): Appendix 1. Ouyang et al., 2015. J. Agri. Biotech. 23(6): Table 1. Pfeiffer et al., 2016. Conserv. Genet. 17(2): 281, Table 1. Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 109, Table 2. Smith et al., 2019. Systemat. Biodiv. 17(4): Table S1. Burlakova et al., 2019. Malacologia 62(2): Table 1. Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: Table 1. Inoue et al., 2020. Zootaxa 4816(4): 460. Smith et al., 2020. Cladistics 36: Table 1. Freeman et al., 2025. Malacologia 67(1/2): 247, Table 2. (misidentified reference to Unio tampicoensis Lea, 1838) | |
Fusconaia mitchelli Pfeiffer et al., 2016 ‘Simpson’ of Authors. Pfeiffer et al., 2016. Conserv. Genet. 17(2): 281. [in part] Inoue et al., 2018. Invert. Syst. 32: Table S2. [in part] (misidentified reference to Unio mitchelli Dall, 1895) | |
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 OpinionsAmblema neislerii Amblema plicata Anodonta suborbiculata = Utterbackiana suborbiculata Cyclonaias tuberculata Cyrtonaias tampicoensis = Mesonaias tampicoensis Elliptio crassidens Elliptio dilatata = Eurynia dilatata Elliptio fumata Elliptoideus sloatianus Fusconaia askewi Fusconaia burkei Fusconaia cerina Fusconaia escambia Fusconaia flava Fusconaia mitchelli (Simpson in Dall, 1896) + Unio iheringi B.H. Wright, 1898 Fusconaia mitchelli (Simpson in Dall, 1896) = Fusconaia iheringi Glebula rotundata Hemistena lata Lampsilis teres Leptodea fragilis = Potamilus fragilis Plethobasus cyphyus Pleurobema clava Pleurobema collina = Parvaspina collina Pleurobema cordatum Pleurobema pyriforme Pleurobema ridelli [sic] = Pleurobema riddellii Pleurobema sintoxia Pleurobema strodeanum Pleuronaia dolabelloides Quadrula apiculata = Quadrula quadrula Quadrula houstonensis = Pustulosa pustulosa Quadrula mortoni = Pustulosa pustulosa Quadrula petrina = Pustulosa petrina Reginaia ebena = Reginaia ebenus Reginaia rotulata Sphenonaias taumilapana (Conrad, 1855) Tritogonia verrucosa = Quadrula verrucosa Truncilla macrodon Uniomerus declivis Villosa lienosa = Leaunio lienosus
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