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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!

For each valid genus, the nominal generic synonyms are listed. The taxonomic history (since 1900) at the bottom of the page lists the genera to which all of the currently included species have been classified.

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genus Cyclonaias Pilsbry in Ortmann & Walker, 1922: nominal genera
     11 valid species

Rotundaria Agassiz, 1852
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Agassiz, 1852, Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 48.
Simpson, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 765.
Ortmann, 1909, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 5: 201.
Ortmann, 1910, Nautilus 23(11): 140.
Ortmann, 1912, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 257.
Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 811.
Utterback, 1915, Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(4): 149.
Ortmann, 1918, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 57(6): 543.
Haas, 1929, Senckenbergiana 11: 333.
Haas, 1930, Senckenbergiana 12(6): 319.
(reference to Rotundaria Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820 () = Cyclonaias tuberculata

Cyclonaias Ortmann & Walker, 1922
Pilsbry in Ortmann & Walker, 1922, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 18.
Type species: Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820 (orig. desig.) = Cyclonaias tuberculata

Bullata Frierson, 1927
Frierson, 1927, Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 48.
(homonym of Jousseaume, 1875 [Gastr.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820; renamed Pustulosa Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Obliquaria (Quadrula) bullata Rafinesque, 1820 (original designation) = Cyclonaias pustulosa

Pustulosa Frierson, 1927
Frierson, 1927, Check List N. Amer. Naiades: errata et corrigenda.
Thiele, 1934, Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 827 [1260].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820; new name for Bullata Frierson, 1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

ObovariaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (sec. Theliderma)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Rotundaria)Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Simpson (1914)
Simpson (1900), Martens (1900), de Gregorio (1914), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Unio (s.s.)Call (1900)
QuadrulaIhering (1901), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), ..., Inoue et al. (2018), Marshall et al. (2018), Gasparini et al. (2020), Klymus et al. (2020)
RotundariaOrtmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Utterback (1915), Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Thiele (1934), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012)
Uniode Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935)
CyclonaiasOrtmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), F.C. Baker (1928), ..., Inoue et al. (2020), FMCS (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021)
FusconaiaOrtmann (1923), Ortmann (1925), Clench & Turner (1956), Haas (1969), ..., Zhou et al. (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Szumowski et al. (2012)
Quadrula (Bullata)Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (Quincuncina)Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (Striata)Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (Cyclonaias)Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)
Quadrula (Fusconia [sic])Frierson (1927)
Quadrula (s.s.)F.C. Baker (1928)
QuincuncinaClench & Turner (1956), Haas (1969), Burch (1975), Davis & Fuller (1981), ..., Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Szumowski et al. (2012)
PustulosaModell (1957)
Quadrula (Pustulosa)Haas (1969)
PleurobemaMorrison (1969), Vidrine (1993)
ObliquariaBurch (1975)
AmphinaiasIUCN (1996), Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), IUCN (2011), ITIS (2013)
Cyclonaias (Quadrula)Porto-Hannes et al. (2021)

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