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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 | Ptychobranchus

species Ptychobranchus foremanianus (Lea, 1842): nominal species
     3 specimens available.

Unio foremanianus Lea, 1842
Lea, 1842, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 247 [85], pl. 27, fig. 64.
Lea, 1843, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 224.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84439, Coosa R., Alabama.

Unio foremanianusLea (1842), Conrad (1853), Sowerby (1866), B.H. Wright (1888)
Margaron (Unio) foremanianusLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Unio (Lampsilis) foremanianusAdams & Adams (1857)
Ptychobranchus foremanianusSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Ptychobranchus foremanianumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)

Unio velatus Conrad, 1854
Conrad, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 259.
Conrad, 1854, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 2(4): 298, pl. 27, fig. 6.

Unio velatusConrad (1853), Conrad (1854)
Margaron (Unio) foremanianusLea (1870)
Ptychobranchus foremanianusSimpson (1900), Williams et al. (2008)
Ptychobranchus foremanianumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)

Unio woodwardius Lea, 1857
Lea, 1857, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 170.
Lea, 1859, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 199, pl. 23, fig. 82; pl. 29, fig. 103 [as ‘woodwardianus’].

Unio woodwardiusLea (1857)
Unio woodwardianusReeve (1864), B.H. Wright (1888)
Margaron (Unio) woodwardianusLea (1870)
Ptychobranchus foremanianusSimpson (1900), Williams et al. (2008), Bieler (2021)
Ptychobranchus foremanianumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)

Unio woodwardianus Lea, 1859
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lea, 1859, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 199.
Lea, 1870, Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 36.
B.H. Wright, 1888, Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [6].
(error for Unio woodwardius Lea, 1857)

Unio woodwardianusLea (1859)
Ptychobranchus foremanianusSimpson (1900), Bieler (2021)
Ptychobranchus foremanianumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)

Unio trinacrus Lea, 1861
Lea, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 59.
Lea, 1862, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: 86 [90], pl. 12, fig. 235.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84445, Coosa R., Alabama.

Unio trinacrusLea (1861), B.H. Wright (1888)
Unio trinacrisSowerby (1868)
Margaron (Unio) trinacrusLea (1870)
Ptychobranchus trinacrusSimpson (1900)
Ptychobranchus trinacriumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)
Ptychobranchus foremanianusWilliams et al. (2008)

Unio trinacris Lea, 1862
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lea, 1862, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: pl. 12, fig. 235.
Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 81, sp. 428.
(error for Unio trinacrus Lea, 1861)

Unio trinacrisLea (1862)
Ptychobranchus trinacrusSimpson (1900)

Ptychobranchus trinacrium Simpson, 1914
‘Lea’ Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 337.
(error for Unio trinacrus Lea, 1861)

Ptychobranchus trinacriumSimpson (1914)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Ptychobranchus foremanianusSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Ptychobranchus trinacrusSimpson (1900)
Ptychobranchus foremanianumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus trinacriumSimpson (1914)
Ptychobranchus (s.s.) foremanianumFrierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ptychobranchus greeniBurch (1975), Parmalee & Bogan (1998)

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