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Megalonaias Utterback, 1915
856837 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:856837)
accepted
Genus
Unio heros Say, 1829 accepted as Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820) (type by original designation)
Amblema (Megalonaias) Utterback, 1915 · unaccepted
Magalonaias Utterback, 1915 · unaccepted
- Species Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
- Species Megalonaias nickliniana (I. Lea, 1834)
- Species Megalonaias boykiniana (I. Lea, 1840) accepted as Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
- Species Megalonaias gigantea (Barnes, 1823) accepted as Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Megalonaias heros (Say, 1829) accepted as Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
- Species Megalonaias neislerii (I. Lea, 1858) accepted as Amblema neislerii (I. Lea, 1858)
- Species Megalonaias triumphans (B. H. Wright, 1898) accepted as Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
feminine
Utterback, W. I. (1915). The naiades of Missouri. – II. The American Midland Naturalist, 4(4): 97-152, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29527411
page(s): 123 [details]
page(s): 123 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalonaias Utterback, 1915. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=856837 on 2025-04-30
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Utterback, W. I. (1915). The naiades of Missouri. – II. The American Midland Naturalist, 4(4): 97-152, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29527411
page(s): 123 [details]
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. <em>University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.</em> 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]
page(s): 123 [details]
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. <em>University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.</em> 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]
