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

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species Pyganodon lacustris (Lea, 1857): synonymy
     1 specimen

Anodonta lacustris Lea, 1857
Lea, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 84.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 8]: 363 [45], pl. 62, fig. 188.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86597, Mohawk, N.Y.

Anodonta marginataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), F.C. Baker (1928)
Anodonta (s.s.) marginataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) cataracta cataractaR.I. Johnson (1970)
Anodonta cataractaBurch (1975)
Anodonta lacustrisHoeh & Burch (1989)
Pyganodon lacustrisHoeh (1990), Hoeh et al. (1995), Strayer & Jirka (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), Zanatta et al. (2007), ... Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Pyganodon grandisHaag (2012)

Anodonta marginata Baker, 1920
‘Say’ Baker, 1920. Life of the Pleistocene: 383.
‘Say’ F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 165.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta marginata Say, 1817)

Anodonta grandis simpsonianaClarke (1973)
Anodonta lacustrisHoeh & Burch (1989)
Pyganodon grandisParmalee & Bogan (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta marginataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), F.C. Baker (1928)
Anodonta (s.s.) marginataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) cataracta cataractaR.I. Johnson (1970)
Anodonta grandis simpsonianaClarke (1973)
Anodonta cataractaBurch (1975)
Anodonta lacustrisHoeh & Burch (1989)
Pyganodon lacustrisHoeh (1990), Hoeh et al. (1995), Strayer & Jirka (1997), Turgeon et al. (1998), Zanatta et al. (2007), ... Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Pyganodon grandisParmalee & Bogan (1998), Haag (2012)

 
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