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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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Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Utterbackiana

species Utterbackiana couperiana (Lea, 1840): nominal species
     1 specimen available.

Anodonta couperiana Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 289 [as ‘cowperiana’].
Lea, 1842, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 227, pl. 20, fig. 46.
(correct name for Anodonta cowperiana Lea, 1840)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86673, [Altamaha River] Hopeton, near Darien [McIntosh Co.], Georgia.

Anodonta couperianaLea (1840), Conrad (1853), Hanley (1856), Adams & Adams (1857), ..., Haag (2012), ITIS (2012), Williams et al. (2014), Smith et al. (2018)
Margaron (Anodonta) couperianaLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Anodon couperianusSowerby (1867)
Anodonta gibbosaSimpson (1900)
Anodonta (Lastena) couperianaFrierson (1927)
Lastena ohiensis couperianaModell (1945)
Anodonta cowperianaClench & Turner (1956)
Anodonta (Lastena) cowperianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperianaR.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Heard (1975), Kat (1983)
Anodonta “couperiana”Hoeh (1990)
Utterbackia couperianaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010)
Utterbackiana couperianaWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Whelan et al. (2023)

Anodonta cowperiana Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 289.
(incorrect original spelling of Anodonta couperiana Lea, 1840)

Anodonta cowperianaLea (1840), Clench & Turner (1956)
Anodonta gibbosaSimpson (1900)
Anodonta couperianaSimpson (1914), Burch (1975)
Anodonta (Lastena) couperianaFrierson (1927)
Anodonta (Lastena) cowperianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperianaR.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972)
Utterbackiana couperianaBieler (2021)

Anodonta dunlapiana Lea, 1842
Lea, 1842, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 248 [86], pl. 27, fig. 65.
Lea, 1843, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 225.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_86564, Charleston, S. Carolina.

Anodonta dunlapianaLea (1842), Hanley (1856), B.H. Wright (1888)
Margaron (Anodonta) dunlapianaLea (1852), Lea (1870)
Anodon dunlopianaSowerby (1869)
Anodonta gibbosa var. dunlapianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Lastena) couperiana-dunlapianaFrierson (1927)
Anodonta cowperianaClench & Turner (1956)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) cataracta gibbosaHaas (1969)
Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperianaR.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972)
Anodonta couperianaBurch (1975)

Anodon dunlopiana Sowerby, 1869
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1869, Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 23, sp. 87.
(error for Anodonta dunlapiana Lea, 1842)

Anodon dunlopianaSowerby (1869)
Anodonta gibbosa var. dunlapianaSimpson (1900)

Anodonta cooperiana Paetel, 1890
‘Lea’ Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 178.
(error for Anodonta couperiana Lea, 1840)

Anodonta cooperianaPaetel (1890)
Anodonta gibbosaSimpson (1900)
Anodonta couperianaSimpson (1914)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Anodonta gibbosaSimpson (1900)
Anodonta gibbosa var. dunlapianaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Anodonta couperianaSimpson (1914), R.I. Johnson (1969), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), ..., Haag (2012), ITIS (2012), Williams et al. (2014), Smith et al. (2018)
Anodonta (Lastena) couperianaFrierson (1927)
Anodonta (Lastena) couperiana-dunlapianaFrierson (1927)
Lastena ohiensis couperianaModell (1945)
Anodonta cowperianaClench & Turner (1956)
Anodonta (Lastena) cowperianaHaas (1969)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) cataracta gibbosaHaas (1969)
Anodonta (Utterbackia) couperianaR.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Heard (1975), Kat (1983)
Anodonta “couperiana”Hoeh (1990)
Utterbackia couperianaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010)
Utterbackiana couperianaWilliams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Whelan et al. (2023)

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