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 Morrison (1943), 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

Morrison, J.P.E. 1943. Two new Orinoco unionids, with notes on Unio granadensis Lea and U. patulus Lea. Nautilus 57: 14-16 .

Click here for online access.

Attributed Species Names

Unio granadensis Simpson, 1900
‘Conrad’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 598.
Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 289 [corrected in corrigenda].
Morrison, 1943, Nautilus 57: 15.
(error for Unio grandensis Conrad, 1855)

Micronaias marshalli Morrison, 1943
Morrison, 1943, Nautilus 57: 15.
(new name for Unio granadensis Lea, 1868)

Castalia orinocensis Morrison, 1943
Morrison, 1943, Nautilus 57: 14, pl. 5, figs. 1-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_522000, Maipures, Orinoco R., Colombia.

Diplodon flucki Morrison, 1943
Morrison, 1943, Nautilus 57: 14, pl. 5, fig. 5-9.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_521998, above Munduapo, Venezuela.

Page updated: 11:20:10 Thu 21 Mar 2024

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