MUSSELp
 
MUSSELpdb
 
 
Taxonomy
 
 
Geography
 
 
 

Page last updated
Wed 04 Dec 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 Schumacher (1817), 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

Schumacher. 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: .

Click here for online access.

Attributed Genus Names

Margaritana Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 41, 123.
Type species: Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Cristaria Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 38, 107.
Type species: Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Cristaria plicata

Iphigenia Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 155.
Type species: Donax laevigata Gmelin, 1791 (monotypy) = Iphigenia laevigata

Cultellus Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 43, 150.

Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 46, 139.
Type species: Paxyodon ponderosus Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Prisodon syrmatophorus

Semele Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 53, 165.

Arctica Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 48, 145.

Prisodon Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 46, 139.
Type species: Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817 (subsequent designation) = Prisodon obliquus

Attributed Species Names

Unio granosus Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 138, pl. 11, fig. 1.
(homonym of Unio granosa Bruguière, 1792)

Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 124, pl. 10, fig. 4.

Prisodon truncatus Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 139.

Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 107, pl. 20, fig. 2.

Paxyodon ponderosus Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7 [as ‘ponderosum’]. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 46, 139, pl. 11, fig. 3.

Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 139, pl. 11, fig. 2.

Taxonomic Opinions

Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817

Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817
+ Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758
+ Mya margaritifera Gmelin, 1791

Paxyodon ponderosus Schumacher, 1817

Prisodon obliquus (Schumacher, 1817)

Prisodon truncatus (Schumacher, 1817)

Unio granosus Schumacher, 1817

Unio tumidus Retzius, 1788

Page updated: 11:25:36 Wed 04 Dec 2024

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