MolluscaBase - Obovaria subrotunda Rafinesque, 1820

(of Obliquaria (Rotundaria) subrotunda Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques. 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 308, pl. 81, figs. 21-23 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Obovaria subrotunda Rafinesque, 1820. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857349 on 2025-07-03

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2015-10-16 11:46:27Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description (of Obliquaria (Rotundaria) subrotunda Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques. 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 308, pl. 81, figs. 21-23 [details]

original description (of Obovaria striata Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques. 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 311 [details]

original description (of Unio circulus I. Lea, 1829) Lea I. (1829). Description of a new genus of the family of naïades, including eight species, four of which are new; also the description of eleven new species of the genus Unio from the rivers of the United States: with observation on some of the characters of the naïades. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. new ser., 3: 403-457, pls 7-14., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4487916
page(s): 433, pl. 9, fig. 14 [details]

original description (of Unio lens I. Lea, 1831) Lea, I. (1831). Observations on the naïades, and descriptions of new species of that and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 4: 63-121, plates 3-18., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24786630
page(s): 80, pl. 8, fig. 10 [details]

original description (of Unio leibii I. Lea, 1862) Lea, I. (1862). Descriptions of ten new species of Unionidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 168-169 [after 29 April 1862; before 27 May 1862]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1951640
page(s): 168 [details]

original description (of Unio depygis Conrad, 1866) Conrad, T. A. (1866). Description of a new species of Unio. American Journal of Conchology. 2(2): 107, pl. 10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15841073 [details]

original description (of Obovaria subrotunda globula J. P. E. Morrison, 1942) Morrison, J. P. E. (1942). Preliminary report on mollusks found in the shell mounds of the Pickwick landing basin in the Tennessee River Valley. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin. 129: 337-392., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27424799
page(s): 360 [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Williams, J. D., Bogan, A. E. & Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp. [details]

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]