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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 IUCN (2011), 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.

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Publication information

IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List: .

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Attributed Species Names

Sphaerium myadii IUCN, 2011
‘Mori’ IUCN, 2011, IUCN Red List: [web].
(error for Sphaerium miyadii Mori, 1933)

Unio tourmeyi IUCN, 2011
‘Lea’ IUCN, 2011, IUCN Red List: [web].
(error for Unio tuomeyi Lea, 1852)

Taxonomic Opinions

Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)

Acuticosta chinensis (Lea, 1868)
+ Unio sinensis [sic] var. laevis Heude, 1883
+ Unio sinensis [sic] var. squammosus Heude, 1883

Acuticosta ovata (Simpson, 1900)

Alasmidonta heterodon (Lea, 1830)

Alasmidonta mccordi Athearn, 1964

Alasmidonta undulata (Say, 1817)

Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)

Alathyria jacksoni Iredale, 1934
+ Alathyria selwyni Iredale, 1943
+ Alathyria jacksoni alleni Iredale, 1943

Amblema elliottii (Lea, 1856)

Amphinaias nodulata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Amphinaias pustulosa (Lea, 1831)

Anemina euscaphys (Heude, 1879)

Anemina fluminea (Heude, 1877)

Anodonta beringiana Middendorf, 1851 [sic]
+ Anodonta youkanensis Lea, 1867

Anodonta californiensis I. Lea, 1852

Anodonta implicata Say, 1829

Anodonta impura Say, 1829

Anodontites elongatus (Swainson, 1823)

Anodontites tenebricosus (Lea, 1834)
+ Mycetopus plicatus Clessin, 1882
+ Mycetopus clessini Fischer, 1890
+ Glabaris nehringi Ihering, 1893

Anodontites trigonus (Spix & Wagner, 1827)

Anodontoides radiatus (Conrad, 1834)

Arcidens confragosus (Say, 1829)

Arcidens wheeleri (Ortmann & Walker, 1912)

Arconaia lanceolata (Lea, 1856)
+ Triquetra contorta Lea, 1857
+ Unio contortus var. conjungens Heude, 1877

Bartlettia stefanensis (Moricand, 1856)

Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819

Castalia schombergiana Sowerby, 1869

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1815)
+ Symphynota bialata Lea, 1829
+ Anodonta (Dispsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848
+ Anodonta bellua Morelet, 1866
+ Anodonta (Dipsas) spatiosa Clessin, 1876
+ Dipsas occidentalis Heude, 1885

Cristaria truncata Dang, 1980

Cuneopsis capitatus (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis celtiformis (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis demangei Haas, 1929

Cuneopsis heudei (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis pisciculus (Heude, 1874)
+ Unio retortus Martens, 1875
+ Unio flexuosus Neumayr, 1899

Cuneopsis rufescens (Heude, 1874)

Diplodon chilensis (Gray, 1828)
+ Unio patagonica d’Orbigny, 1835

Diplodon granosus (Bruguière, 1792)

Diplodon granosus ellypticum Spix, 1827

Diplodon granosus multistriatus (Lea, 1834)

Diplodon parallelopipedon (Lea, 1834)
+ Unio trifidus Lea, 1860

Diplodon parallelopipedon acutirostris

Dreissena blanci Westerlund, 1890
+ Dreissensia hellenica Locard, 1893
+ Dreissensia thiesae Locard, 1893

Dreissena bugensis (Andrusov, 1897)

Dreissena caspia caspia Eichwald, 1855

Dreissena caspia pallasi (Andrusov, 1897)

Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)

Dreissena presbensis Kobelt, 1915
+ Dreissena stankovici Lvova & Starobogatov, 1982

Dreissena rostriformis Deshayes, 1838

Elliptio angustata (Lea, 1831)

Elliptio buckleyi (Lea, 1843)

Elliptio cistellaeformis (Lea, 1863)

Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786)

Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)
+ Unio incrassatus Lea, 1840

Elliptio cylindracea Frierson, 1927
+ Unio geddingsianus Lea, 1840
+ Unio tuomeyi Lea, 1852

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Elliptio downiei (Lea, 1858)

Elliptio errans (Lea, 1834) [sic]

Elliptio fisheriana (Lea, 1838)

Elliptio folliculata (Lea, 1838)

Elliptio hopetonensis (Lea, 1838)

Elliptio jayensis (I. Lea, 1838)

Elliptio mcmichaeli Clench & Turner, 1956

Elliptio producta (Conrad, 1836)

Elliptio waccamawensis (Lea, 1863)

Elliptio waltoni (Wright, 1888)

Epioblasma personata (Say, 1829)

Epioblasma propinqua (I. Lea, 1857)

Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
+ Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807
+ Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807
+ Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807
+ Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824
+ Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824
+ Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824
+ Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825
+ Aetheria petrettinii Bourguignat, 1880

Euglesa gurvichi Starobogatov & Izzatullaev, 1985

Euglesa mongolica Slugina & Starobogatov, 2001

Eupera cubensis (Prime, 1865)

Eupera moquiniana (Bourguignat, 1854)

Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)
+ Unio undatus Barnes, 1823
+ Unio rubiginosus Lea, 1829
+ Unio trigonus Lea, 1831

Fusconaia ozarkensis (Call, 1887)
+ Pleurobema argentea pannosa Simpson, 1900
+ Pleurobema brevis subelliptica Simpson, 1900
+ Pleurobema utterbackii Utterback, 1915

Hamiota australis (Simpson, 1900)

Harmandia somboriensis (Rochebrune, 1882)
+ Harmandia castelneaui Rochebrune, 1904

Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852)
+ Hyriopsis goliath Rolle, 1904

Hyriopsis delaportei (Crosse & Fischer, 1876)

Hyriopsis desowitzi Brandt, 1974

Hyriopsis myersianus (Lea, 1856)
+ Unio housei Lea, 1856
+ Unio sutrangensis Morlet, 1889
+ Unio stungtrangensis Fischer & Dautzenberg, 1904
+ Unio patrangensis Morlet, 1904

Inversidens brandtii (Kobelt, 1879)
+ Nodularia parcedentata Haas, 1911

Inversidens pantoensis (Neumayr, 1899)

Lamellidens jenkinsianus daccaensis

Lamellidens jenkinsianus obesa

Lamproscapha ensiformis (Spix & Wagner, 1827)

Lamprotula bazini (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula blaisei (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905)

Lamprotula crassa (Wood, 1815)

Lamprotula fibrosa (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula leai (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Lamprotula liedtkei (Rolle, 1904)

Lamprotula nodulosa (Wood, 1815)

Lamprotula polysticta (Heude, 1877)
+ Unio polystictoscriptus Heude, 1877
+ Unio scriptopolystictus Heude, 1877

Lamprotula ponderosa (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905)

Lamprotula rochechouarti (Heude, 1875)

Lamprotula scripta (Heude, 1875)

Lamprotula tientsinensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)

Lamprotula tortuosa (Lea, 1865)

Lamprotula triclava (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula zonata (Heude, 1883)

Lanceolaria bilirata von Martens, 1902

Lanceolaria cylindrica (Simpson, 1900)
+ Unio grayanus Schrenck, 1867
+ Lanceolaria maacki Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria chankensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria ussuriensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria (Pericylindrica) bogatovi Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984

Lanceolaria gladiola (Heude, 1877)

Lanceolaria triformis (Heude, 1877)
+ Unio distortus Heude, 1883

Lasmigona holstonia I. Lea, 1838

Lepidodesma languilati (Heude, 1874)
+ Cristaria megadesma Martens, 1875

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
+ Dahurinaia sujfunensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Dahurinaia (s.s.) tiunovae Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988
+ Dahurinaia prozorovae Bogatov et al., 2003
+ Dahurinaia komarovi Bogatov et al., 2003

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
+ Dahurinaia kurilensis Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984
+ Kurilinaia zatravkini Bogatov et al., 2003

Margaritifera laosensis (Lea, 1863)

Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
+ Kurilinaia kamchatica Bogatov et al., 2003

Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
+ Unio crassus var. giganteus Barnes, 1823
+ Unio boykinianus Lea, 1840

Microcondylaea bonellii (Ferussac, 1827)
+ Alasmodonta compressa Menke, 1830

Modellnaia siamensis Brandt, 1974

Musculium argentinum (d’Orbigny, 1835)

Musculium compressum Mousson, 1887
+ Cyclas calyculata var. compressa Middendorff, 1851

Musculium goshaitanensis Nesemann & Sharma, 2005

Musculium hartmanni (Jickeli, 1874)
+ Sphærium (Corneola) teilhardi Pallary, 1909
+ Sphærium (Corneola) pharaonum Pallary, 1909

Musculium hartmanni naivashaensis (Preston, 1912)

Musculium incomitatum (Kuiper, 1966)

Musculium problematicum (Gabriel, 1939)

Musculium quirindi Korniushin, 2000

Musculium transversum (Say, 1829)

Nephronaias scamnata (Morelet, 1849)

Nitia acuminata Haas, 1969 [sic]

Nitia monceti (Bourguignat, 1883)

Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830

Novaculina siamensis Morlet, 1889

Oxynaia diespiter (Mabille, 1887)

Oxynaia jourdyi (Morlet, 1886)

Oxynaia micheloti (Morelet, 1886) [sic]

Parreysia cylindrica Annandale & Prashad, 1919

Parreysia favidens assamensis Preston, 1912

Parreysia favidens chrysis (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens deltae (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens densa (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens marcens (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens pinax (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens plagiosoma (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens trigona (Benson, 1862)

Parreysia favidens viridula (Benson, 1862)

Pharella waltoni Brandt, 1974

Physunio cambodiensis (Lea, 1856)

Physunio superbus (Lea, 1843)
+ Unio gravidus Lea, 1856
+ Unio abnormis Morelet, 1862
+ Unio massini Morelet, 1864

Pilsbryoconcha exilis (Lea, 1838)
+ Anodonta sempervivens Deshayes & Jullien, 1876
+ Anodonta laminata Rochebrune, 1882

Pisidium annandalei Prashad, 1925

Pisidium aslini Kuiper, 1983

Pisidium atkinsonianum Theobald, 1876

Pisidium australiense Korniushin, 2000

Pisidium carum (Cotton, 1953)

Pisidium centrale Korniushin, 2000

Pisidium chandanbariensis Nesemann, Shah & Tachamo, 2007

Pisidium chilense (d’Orbigny, 1846)

Pisidium chiquitanum Ituarte, 2001

Pisidium clarkeanum G. & H. Nevill, 1871

Pisidium conventus Clessin, 1877
+ Pisidium abyssorum Sterki, 1898
+ Pisidium clessini Surbeck, 1899
+ Pisidium imbecille Sterki, 1900
+ Pisidium tornense Odhner, 1908
+ Pisidium pusillum B.B. Woodward, 1913
+ Pisidium abortivum Sterki, 1916

Pisidium dorbignyi Clessin, 1879

Pisidium edlaueri Kuiper, 1960

Pisidium ellipticum Mori, 1936

Pisidium ellisi Dance, 1967

Pisidium equilaterale Prime, 1852

Pisidium etheridgii Smith, 1882

Pisidium ferrugineum Prime, 1851

Pisidium fultoni Kuiper, 1983

Pisidium globulus Clessin, 1888

Pisidium henslowanum (Sheppard, 1823)

Pisidium idahoense Roper, 1890

Pisidium insigne Gabb, 1868

Pisidium iquito Ituarte, 2004

Pisidium kosciusko Iredale, 1943

Pisidium kuiperi Dance, 1967

Pisidium maasseni Kuiper, 1987

Pisidium meierbrooki Kuiper & Hinz, 1983

Pisidium nevillianum Theobald, 1876

Pisidium observationis Pilsbry, 1911

Pisidium obtusale (Lamarck, 1818)
+ Pisidium scholtzii Clessin, 1873
+ Pisidium obtusalastrum Woodward, 1921

Pisidium omaguaca Ituarte, 2005

Pisidium parvum Mori, 1938

Pisidium plenilunium (Melvill & Standen, 1907)

Pisidium ponderi Korniushin, 2000

Pisidium prasongi Kuiper in Brandt, 1974

Pisidium pseudosphaerium J. Favre, 1927

Pisidium stewarti Preston, 1909

Pisidium stoliczkanum Prashad, 1933

Pisidium subtilestriatum Lindholm, 1909

Pisidium supinum A. Schmidt, 1850

Pisidium variabile Prime, 1852

Pisidium ventricosum Prime, 1851

Pisidium vile Pilsbry, 1897

Pisidium waldeni Kuiper, 1975

Pisidium yarkandense Prashad, 1933

Pisidium zugmayeri Weber, 1910

Plethobasus cicatricosus (Say, 1829)
+ Unio varicosus Lea, 1831
+ Unio detectus Frierson, 1911
+ Plethobasus pachosteus Morrison, 1969

Pleurobema beadleianum (Lea, 1861)

Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817

Protunio messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1901)

Pseudanodonta complanata Rossmössler [sic], 1835

Pseudanodonta elongata (Holandre, 1836)

Pseudodon cambodjensis (Petit, 1865)
+ Monocondylus orbicularis Morelet, 1866
+ Unio subtrigonus Sowerby, 1867
+ Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891

Pseudodon resupinatus von Martens, 1902

Pseudodon thomsoni Morlet, 1884

Pseudomulleria dalyi (Smith, 1898)

Pyganodon lacustris (Lea, 1852)

Quadrula succissa (Lea, 1852)

Radiatula pilata (Lea, 1866)

Rectidens sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852)

Rhipidodonta hylaea (d’Orbigny, 1835)
+ Unio guaraniana d’Orbigny, 1835
+ Castalia pazi Hidalgo, 1868
+ Diplodon asuncionis Marshall, 1926

Scabies chinensis Liu, Duan & Lai, 1991

Scabies phaselus (Lea, 1856)

Scaphula celox Benson, 1836

Scaphula deltae Blanford, 1867

Scaphula nagarjunai Janaki Ram & Radhakrishna, 1984

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)
+ Unio vestitus Heude, 1883

Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900)

Sinanodonta ogurae (Kuroda & Habe, 1987)

Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834)
+ Anodonta japonica Clessin, 1874
+ Anodonta lauta Martens, 1877
+ Anodonta calipygos Kobelt, 1879

Sinomytilus harmandi (Rochebrune, 1881)

Sinomytilus morrisoni (Brandt, 1974)

Sphaerium aequatoriale Clessin, 1879

Sphaerium asiaticum (von Martens, 1864)

Sphaerium austeni Prashad, 1921

Sphaerium avanum Theobald, 1873

Sphaerium biwaense Mori, 1933

Sphaerium forbesi (Philippi, 1869)
+ Pisidium boliviense von Bayern, 1900

Sphaerium galitzini Clessin, 1875

Sphaerium indicum Deshayes, 1854

Sphaerium lauricochae (Philippi, 1869)

Sphaerium myadii [sic] Mori, 1933

Sphaerium ovale (Férussac, 1807)
+ Sphaerium nitidum Westerlund, 1876
+ Sphaerium levinodis var. radiatum Westerlund, 1897

Sphaerium rivicola (Lamarck, 1818)

Tanysiphon rivalis Benson, 1858

Toxolasma pullus (Conrad, 1838)
+ Carunculina patrickae Bates, 1966

Unio delphinus Spengler, 1793

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio tumidiformis Castro, 1885

Unio tumidus Retzius, 1788
+ Unio conus Spengler, 1793
+ Unio muelleri Rossmässler, 1838
+ Unio tumidus var. falcatulus Drouët, 1881

Villosa amygdala (Lea, 1843)

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