MolluscaBase - Pleurocera acuta Rafinesque, 1824

(of Pleurocerus acutus Rafinesque, 1824) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230
page(s): 236 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurocera acuta Rafinesque, 1824. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1117125 on 2025-05-01

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original description (of Pleurocerus acutus Rafinesque, 1824) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1824). Mollusques, Mollusca (Malacoz.), pp. 1-392. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 32. Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25299230
page(s): 236 [details]

original description (of Goniobasis lawrencii I. Lea, 1869) Lea, I. (1869). Descriptions of six new species of fresh water shells. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 21: 124-125 [after 15 June 1869, before 30 July 1869]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6588035
page(s): 125 [details]

original description (of Melania alexandrensis I. Lea, 1845) Lea, I. (1845). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 4(33): 162-168 [5 December 1845]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33100618
page(s): 167 [details]

original description (of Melania intensa Reeve, 1860) Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus Melania. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 12, pls 1-59 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, June 1861; pls 2-9, November 1859; pls 10-17, December 1859; pls 18-25, 28-29, January 1860; pls 26-27, 30, February 1860; pls 31-33, May 1860; pls 34-45, September 1860; pls 46-47, November 1860; pls 48-49, December 1860, pls 50-51, March 1861; pls 52-53, April 1861; pls 54-59, May 1861]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11125701
page(s): species 371, pl. 49, fig. 371 [details]

original description (of Melania neglecta J. G. Anthony, 1854) Anthony, J.G. (1854). Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from the western states of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 6: 80-130, plates 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16023670
page(s): 128, pl. 3, fig. 29 [details]

original description (of Melania subularis 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): 100, pl. 15, fig. 30 [details]

original description (of Melania livida Reeve, 1861) Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus Melania. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 12, pls 1-59 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, June 1861; pls 2-9, November 1859; pls 10-17, December 1859; pls 18-25, 28-29, January 1860; pls 26-27, 30, February 1860; pls 31-33, May 1860; pls 34-45, September 1860; pls 46-47, November 1860; pls 48-49, December 1860, pls 50-51, March 1861; pls 52-53, April 1861; pls 54-59, May 1861]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11125701
page(s): species 434, pl. 55, fig. 434 [details]

original description (of Melania tracta A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). Descriptions of sixteen species of Melania. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 359-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870661
page(s): 361 [details]

original description (of Melania varicosa Haldeman, 1841) Haldeman, S.S. (1841). A monograph of the Limniades or freshwater univalve shells of North America, 3. Philadelphia: J. Dobson. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11651512
page(s): backcover [details]

original description (of Pleurocera hinkleyi Goodrich, 1921) Goodrich, C. (1921). Three new species of Pleuroceridae. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 91: 1-5, plate 1.
page(s): 1, pl. 1, fig. 1 [details]

original description (of Trypanostoma labiatum I. Lea, 1862) Lea, I. (1862). Description of a new genus, (Trypanostoma) of the family Melanidae, and of forty-five new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 169-175 [after 29 April 1862]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1951641
page(s): 173 [details]

original description (of Trypanostoma lewisii I. Lea, 1862) Lea, I. (1862). Description of a new genus, (Trypanostoma) of the family Melanidae, and of forty-five new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 169-175 [after 29 April 1862]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1951641
page(s): 172 [details]

original description (of Trypanostoma pallidum I. Lea, 1862) Lea, I. (1862). Description of a new genus, (Trypanostoma) of the family Melanidae, and of forty-five new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 169-175 [after 29 April 1862]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1951641
page(s): 174 [details]

basis of record Johnson, P. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Brown, K. M.; Burkhead, N. M.; Cordeiro, J. R.; Garner, J. T.; Hartfield, P. D.; Lepitzki, D. A. W.; Mackie, G. L.; Tarpley, T. A.; Tiemann, J. S.; Whelan, N. V.; Strong, E. E. (2013). Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries. 38(6): 247-282., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03632415.2013.785396 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Graf, D. L. (2001). The cleansing of the Augean Stables, or a lexicon of the nominal species of the Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) of recent North America, North Mexico. Walkerana. 11 (27): 1-124.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Rafinesque, C. S. (1831). Enumeration and account of some remarkable natural objects of the cabinet of Prof. Rafinesque, in Philadelphia; being animals, shells, plants, fossils, collected by him in North America between 1816 and 1831. Philadelphia. 8 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49035292
page(s): 3 [details]

additional source Goodrich, C. (1924). Some old pleurocerids and a new one. The Nautilus. 38(2): 43-48, text-figs. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525024
page(s): 44-45 [details]

additional source Walker, B. (1917). The type of Pleurocera Rafinesque. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. No. 38: 1-10., available online at https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/56477/OP038.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y [details]

additional source Van Cleave, H. J. (1933). Studies on snails of the genus Pleurocera II. The young of P. acuta. The Nautilus. 47(2): 48-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8522617 [details]

additional source Goodrich, C. (1940). Another immigrant. The Nautilus. 53(3): 105-106., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8516399 [details]

status source Whelan, N. V.; Johnson, P. D.; Garner, J. T.; Garrison, N. L.; Strong, E. E. (2022). Prodigious polyphyly in Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 1(2): 8419: 1-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i2.8419 [details]

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Containing type locality

Definitions

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania neglecta. Anthony, 1854. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 128 - catalog no. 26952) (from synonym Melania neglecta J. G. Anthony, 1854)
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pleurocera acuta)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)

From editor or global species database

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Melania neglecta. Anthony, 1854. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 128 - catalog no. 26952)

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