MolluscaBase - Lasmigona compressa (I. Lea, 1829)

(of Symphynota compressa 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): 450, pl. 12, fig. 22 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lasmigona compressa (I. Lea, 1829). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571962 on 2025-04-30

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original description (of Unio pressus I. Lea, 1843) Lea, I. (1843). [change of preoccupied names of Melania species]. Proceedings of American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia. 2: 237 [on or before 3 January 1843, teste Scudder (1885: 40)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34521665
page(s): 237 [details]

original description (of Symphynota compressa 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): 450, pl. 12, fig. 22 [details]

original description (of Unio compressus var. plebius C. B. Adams, 1842) Adams, C. B. (1842). Invertebrate animals of Vermont. Chap. 6. Fresh-water and land shells. In: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings. Ed. Thompson, Z., Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington, Vermont. Part 1, 151-173
page(s): 166 [details]

basis of record Graf, D. & Cummings, K. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 73(4): 291-314. [details]

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

additional source Harman, W. N. (1973). The Mollusca of Canadarago Lake and a new record for Lasmigona compressa (Lea). The Nautilus. 87(4): 114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8511901 [details]