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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Utterbackiana

species Utterbackiana implicata (Say, 1829): synonymy
     3 specimens

Mytilus fucatus Dillwyn, 1817
‘S’ Lightfoot, 1786. Catalogue of the Portland Museum: 29, no. 672. [nomen nudum]
‘Solander’s MSS.’ Dillwyn, 1817. Descr. Cat. Rec. Shells 1: 317.

Anodonta cygneaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta implicataR.I. Johnson (1980)

Anodonta implicata Say, 1829
Say, 1829. New Harm. Dissem. 2(22): 340, sp. 1.
Say, 1858. [in] Binney, Compl. Writings T. Say: 138.
Type(s): NEOTYPE MCZ_176769 (by R.I. Johnson, 1946: 112), Agawam River, (outlet of Halfway Pond), Plymouth, Mass.

Anodonta implicataSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Simpson (1914), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), ... IUCN (2011), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Whelan et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) implicataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Kat (1983)
Pyganodon implicataModell (1945), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Jones (2015)
Anodonta implicate [sic]Soliman et al. (2016)
Utterbackiana implicataWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Anodonta newtonensis Lea, 1838
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: addenda. [nomen nudum]
Lea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 79 [as ‘newtoniensis’], pl. 21, fig. 66.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86561 (by R.I. Johnson, 1946: 112), Schuylkill, near Phila. Pa.

Anodonta implicataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) implicataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970)
Anodonta cataractaBurch (1975)

Anodonta housatonica Gould, 1848
Linsley, 1845. Amer. J. Sci. 48(2): 277. [nomen nudum]
Gould, 1848. Amer. J. Sci. 56(17): 234, figs. 4-5.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_678302, Housatonica R., Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

Anodonta implicataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) implicataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970)
Anodonta cataractaBurch (1975)

Anodonta fucata Férussac, 1822
Férussac, 1822. Art. Anod., in Dict. class. d’hist. nat. 1: 397.
(reference to Mytilus fucatus Dillwyn, 1817)

Anodonta newtoniensis Lea, 1838
Lea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 79.
(incorrect original spelling of Anodonta newtonensis Lea, 1838)

Anodonta implicataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)

Anodonta fuscata Westerlund, 1890
‘Fer.’ Westerlund, 1890. Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 296.
(error for Anodonta fucata Férussac, 1822)

Anodonta implicate Soliman et al., 2016
Soliman et al., 2016. Egypt. J. Zool. 66: 122.
(error for Anodonta implicata Say, 1829)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta cygneaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta implicataSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Simpson (1914), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), ... IUCN (2011), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Whelan et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) implicataFrierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Kat (1983)
Pyganodon implicataModell (1945), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Jones (2015)
Anodonta cataractaBurch (1975)
Anodonta implicate [sic]Soliman et al. (2016)
Utterbackiana implicataWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

 
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