MUSSELp
 
MUSSELpdb
 
 
Taxonomy
 
 
Geography
 
 
 

Page last updated
Thu 21 Mar 2024

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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page documents data for Rafinesque (1818), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

Search the database pages:

Publication information

Rafinesque, C.S. 1818. General account of the discoveries made in the zoology of the Western States. American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review 4: 106-107.

Click here for online access.

Attributed Genus Names

Potamila Rafinesque, 1818
Rafinesque, 1818, Amer. Mon. Mag. 4: 107.
Rafinesque, 1820, Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 288.
Rafinesque, 1864, [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 24, 35.
(error for Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818)

Truncilla Rafinesque, 1819
Rafinesque, 1818, Amer. Mon. Mag. 4: 107 [nomen nudum].
Rafinesque, 1819, Jour. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. 88: 427.
Rafinesque, 1820, Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 300.
Rafinesque, 1831, Continuation: 4.
Rafinesque, 1864, [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 24, 29, 45, 76.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1849: 628) = Truncilla truncata

Page updated: 11:23:52 Thu 21 Mar 2024

 
NSF icon MUSSEL icon
"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."