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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!

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 Uniomerus Conrad, 1853: nominal genera
     5 valid species

Uniomerus Conrad, 1853
Conrad, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 268.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio declivis Say, 1831 (sub. desig. by Frierson, 1927: 34, 10) = Uniomerus declivis

Uniomeris Tryon, 1884
Tryon, 1884, Struct. Syst. Conch. 3: 238.
(error for Uniomerus Conrad, 1853)

Unionerus Utterback, 1915
Utterback, 1915, Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(3): ??.
(error for Uniomerus Conrad, 1853)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio (sec. Elliptio)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Uniomerus)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Uniomerus)Martens (1900)
Unio (s.s.)Call (1900)
UniomerusOrtmann (1912), Utterback (1915), F.C. Baker (1928), Clench & Turner (1956), ..., Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024)
Uniode Gregorio (1914)
Elliptio (Uniomerus)Frierson (1927), Haas (1929)
Elliptio (sec. Uniomerus)Thiele (1934)
R.I. Johnson (1970)
U.Marshall et al. (2018)

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