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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!

The nominal species (available and otherwise) in this synonymy are listed by usage rather than strictly by publication date. The primary sorting order is by the most recent year (since 1969) that the species name was treated as valid, and then nominal species are sorted secondarily by publication year.

The taxonomic history of the valid species (since 1900) is listed at the bottom of the page.

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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Lampsilis

species Lampsilis higginsii (Lea, 1857): nominal species
     2 specimens available.

Unio higginsii Lea, 1857
Lea, 1857, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 84.
Lea, 1862, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 9]: 188 [10], pl. 24, fig. 258.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84823, Muscatine, Iowa.

Unio higginsiiLea (1857), Sowerby (1868), B.H. Wright (1888)
Margaron (Unio) higginsiiLea (1870)
Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) higginsiiSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) higginsiiSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis higginsiiUtterback (1916), F.C. Baker (1928), Mathiak (1979), Gordon et al. (1979), ..., FMCS (2021), Stodola et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Lampsilis (Ortmanniana) higginsiiFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Lampsilis orbiculataStansbery (1970)
Lampsilis higginsiR.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Haag (2012)

Unio orbiculatus Call, 1900
‘Hildreth’ Call, 1900, Ind. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. (1899): 492.
Baker, 1905, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 15: 253.
Shimek, 1921, Iowa Conserv. 5: 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio orbiculatus Hildreth, 1828)

Unio orbiculatusCall (1900)
Lampsilis (Ortmanniana) higginsiiFrierson (1927)
Lampsilis higginsiiF.C. Baker (1928)

Lampsilis (Eurynia) higginsii var. grandis Simpson, 1914
Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 78.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio higginsii Lea, 1857)

Lampsilis (Eurynia) higginsii var. grandisSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ortmanniana) higginsiiHaas (1969)
Lampsilis higginsiR.I. Johnson (1980)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) higginsiiSimpson (1900)
Unio orbiculatusCall (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) higginsiiSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) higginsii var. grandisSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis higginsiiUtterback (1916), F.C. Baker (1928), Mathiak (1979), Gordon et al. (1979), ..., FMCS (2021), Stodola et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Lampsilis (Ortmanniana) higginsiiFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Lampsilis orbiculataStansbery (1970)
Lampsilis higginsiR.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Haag (2012)

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