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

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Publication Pfeiffer et al. (2019): summary
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Pfeiffer, J.M., C.L. Atkinson, A.E. Sharpe, K.A. Capps, K.F. Emery & L.M. Page. 2019. Phylogeny of Mesoamerican freshwater mussels and a revised tribe-level classification of the Ambleminae. Zoologica Scripta 48: 106-117. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrtonaias 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)

Psoronaias semigranosa Pfeiffer et al., 2019
‘von dem Busch in Philippi’ of Authors.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 108.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 116.
Inoue et al., 2020. Zootaxa 4816(4): 460.
Smith et al., 2020. Cladistics 36: 507.
Freeman et al., 2025. Malacologia 67(1/2): 256, Table 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio semigranosus Philippi, 1842)

Unio popeii Fischer & Crosse, 1894
of Authors.
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(16): 605 [as ‘Unio (Graphonaias) popei’].
Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 504 [as ‘Unio (Nephronaias) popei’].
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 738 [as ‘Unio (sec. Elliptio)’]. [in part]
Pilsbry, 1910. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 61: 535. [in part]
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 271 [as ‘Elliptio’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 700 [as ‘Unio (sec. Elliptio)’]. [in part]
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 38 [as ‘Elliptio (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Haas, 1929. Senckenbergiana 11: 330 [as ‘Elliptio (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 201 [as ‘Nephronaias (Popenaias)’]. [in part]
Graf & Cummings, 2007. J. Moll. Studies 73: 308 [as ‘Popenaias’]. [in part]
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. Zool. Scripta 48: 504 [as ‘Popenaias’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio popeii Lea, 1857)

Taxonomic Opinions

Amblema neislerii (Lea, 1858)

Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)

Cambarunio iris (Lea, 1829)

Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Cyrtonaias explicata (Morelet, 1849) = Mesonaias explicata

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis (Lea, 1838) = Mesonaias tampicoensis
+ Unio berlandierii Lea, 1857

Cyrtonaias tampicoensis (Lea, 1838) = Cyrtonaias berlandierii

Elliptio fumata (Lea, 1857)

Elliptoideus sloatianus (Lea, 1840)

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

Glebula rotundata (Lamarck, 1819)

Gonidea angulata (Lea, 1838)

Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820

Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)

Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
+ Unio heros Say, 1829

Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)

Pachynaias spheniopsis (Morelet, 1849)

Plectomerus dombeyanus

Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1862)

Pleurobema strodeanum (Wright, 1898)

Pleuronaia barnesiana (Lea, 1838)

Popenaias popeii (Lea, 1857)

Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)

Psoronaias semigranosa (Philippi, 1843)
+ Unio psoricus Morelet, 1851

Psoronaias semigranosa (Philippi, 1843) = Psoronaias crocodilorum

Psorula guatemalensis (Simpson, 1900) = Psoronaias guatemalensis

Psorula percompressa (Martens, 1887) = Psoronaias crocodilorum

Psorula profunda (Simpson, 1914) = Psoronaias crocodilorum

Psorula rudis (Simpson, 1914) = Psoronaias crocodilorum

Psorula usumasintae (Crosse & Fischer, 1892) = Psoronaias crocodilorum

Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)

Quadrula apiculata (Say, 1829) = Quadrula quadrula

Reginaia ebena (Lea, 1831) = Reginaia ebenus

Reginaia rotulata (Wright, 1899)

Sphenonaias liebmanni (Philippi, 1847)

Sphenonaias microdon (Martens, 1887) = Mesonaias explicata

Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) = Quadrula verrucosa

Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820

Uniomerus declivis (Say, 1831)

 
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