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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 Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927: nominal genera
     4 valid species

Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927
Frierson, 1927, Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 58.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820; correct name for Pleuronia Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio barnesianus Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Pleuronia Frierson, 1927
Frierson, 1927, Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 10.
(incorrect original spelling of Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio barnesianus Lea, 1838 () = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Pleurconaia Salisbury, 1948
Salisbury, 1948, Zool. Rec. 82: .
(error for Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pleurobema (s.s.)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
PleurobemaOrtmann (1914), Vanatta (1915), Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969), ..., Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
de Gregorio (1914)
Uniode Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935)
FusconaiaOrtmann (1918), Ortmann (1923), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), ..., Burdick & White (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Klymus et al. (2020)
LexingtoniaOrtmann (1918), Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), ..., Manendo et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Klymus et al. (2020)
ElliptioOrtmann (1924)
Quadrula (Pleuronaia)Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
PleuronaiaModell (1957), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Haag (2012), ..., FMCS (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

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